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asininity

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Synonyms and Antonyms of asininity

1 a foolish act or idea

a serious journalist who refuses to take part in the asininity of reporting celebrity gossip as real news

Synonyms of asininity

absurdity, fatuity, folly, foolery, foppery, idiocy, imbecility, inanity, insanity, lunacy, stupidity

Words Related to asininity

absurdness, craziness, foolishness, inaneness, madness, senselessness, witlessness

buffoonery, monkeyshine(s), shenanigan(s), tomfoolery

drivel, humbug, nonsense, twaddle

blunder, bungle, flub, goof, howler

Near Antonyms of asininity

discretion, forethought, prudence, sagacity, wisdom

brainstorm, inspiration

2 lack of good sense or judgment

the asininity of the decision

Synonyms of asininity

absurdity, balminess, brainlessness, craziness, daftness, dippiness, dottiness, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolishness, imbecility, inanity, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsensicalness, nuttiness, preposterousness, senselessness, silliness, simplicity, wackiness, witlessness, zaniness

Words Related to asininity

denseness, dim-wittedness, doltishness, dopiness, dullness (also dulness), dumbness, feeblemindedness, idiocy, mindlessness, oafishness, obtuseness, simplemindedness, simpleness, slowness, stupidity, stupidness, vacuity

fallacy, irrationality, unreasonableness

kookiness, weirdness

laughableness, ludicrousness, ridiculousness

Near Antonyms of asininity

logicality, logicalness, rationality, rationalness, reasonability, reasonableness, validity

discernment, insight, perception, percipience

Antonyms of asininity

prudence, sagaciousness, sagacity, sageness, sanity, sapience, sensibleness, soundness, wisdom

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