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Meaning of stupidism | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. A stupid utterance, act, or process.
    countable
  2. A stance of willful ignorance, anti-intellectualism, and/or stupidity; the embracing of stupidity.
    uncountable
  3. Discrimination against stupid people.
    rare, uncountable

Examples

“No; we have no such ancient stupidisms.”
“Sophistry is not the exact name for such jokes: stupidism would do.”
“My name is Bob, Bob Stannell, so where you get flaming 'Mr. Robert' from I do not know. Must be some stupid Welshism. . .or some kind of Welsh stupidism...one and the same really.”
“Now cronies may reve in all these kind of, honestly, "stupidisms,” yet they are really nonsense.”
“Once they arrive, I will be able to effectively bitch about every idiotic stupidism that people are scared to discuss among friends.”
“He had now become one of the thousands, millions, smarting under plain stupidism passing for Americanism.”
“How explain this strange phenomenon, stark mass stupidism and widespread witcheries sprawling over the land like a black Leviathan, yet which was studded with so many schools and great colleges and universities?”
“All I am saying is that, as democrats, our enemy is no longer German Fascism or Soviet Communism but American Stupidism, the idea that stupid people participating in the democratic process is actually a good thing.”
“Not that these two mavericks of right and left weren't forced to breathe the sludgy water of stupidism through their previously pure gills.”
“Still another example demonstrating the pioneering and innovative nature of Western translation theory, according to Liu (1989), was the 18th century Hermeneutics rebellion against the 'Stupidism' of the Middle Ages, in particular, the German Romanticists who refused to accept the prescriptive interpretation of the Bible given by the Vatican and viggorously pursued the original meanings of the Holy Scripture.”
“The knotweed of stupidism can sow deleterious ignorance of the past.”
“"Racism discrimination" accusations are often mistakenly made by people who are actually victims of stupidism, ignorantism, rudism, smellism, drunkism, drugism, violentism, or criminalism. People often discriminate against others who are stupid, ignorant, rude, smally, drunk, drug addled, violent, or criminals.”
“He has already helped refute “racism” by publicly demonstrating that many BLMers are discriminated against because of “stupidism” (widespread bias against stupidity), not racism.”
“Yet she has consistently striven to focus on love, and made it her mission to use her passion, persistence, knowledge, and experience to dismantle racism, sexism, classism, and plain old stupidism— including her own.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.

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