gormlessness

noun

chiefly British
as in thickness
the quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind the backbencher professed himself horrified by the gormlessness and naïveté of the prime minister

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  1. thickness
  2. dullness
  3. density
  4. slowness
  5. stupidness
  6. dumbness
  7. boneheadedness
  8. denseness
Noun
  • Their current fibers measure about 1 millimeter across, but improved fabrication methods could reduce that thickness to tens of micrometers.
    — Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 9 Oct. 2026
  • The dryer attachment is–on my long, wavy, medium-thickness hair–as effective as the Dyson’s dedicated Supersonic dryer.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of thickness
Noun
  • First comes the tightness and dullness, then the flaky patches around my cheeks.
    — Christa Joanna Lee, Allure, 9 Oct. 2026
  • Serums suit frizz, dullness, fine-to-medium hair, regular heat styling and immediate polish.
    — Hanna Wickes, Miami Herald, 7 Oct. 2026
Definition of dullness
Noun
  • Over-harvesting the donor area to achieve maximum density on day one can leave nothing for the repair that later progression demands.
    — William Jones, Miami Herald, 12 Oct. 2026
  • The Strawberry Lane development proposes a density of about two homes per acre if removed from the boundary.
    — Martin E. Comas, The Orlando Sentinel, 8 Oct. 2026
Definition of density
Noun
  • This will mean increased overhead and slowness in deployment but will require sourcing leaders to shift their focus from efficiency to aligning AI to risk mitigation in end-to-end supply chain networks.
    — Arthur Zaczkiewicz, Footwear News, 20 Sep. 2026
  • The slowness certainly hasn’t been for a lack of effort from either side this summer.
    — Pierre LeBrun, New York Times, 14 Sep. 2026
Definition of slowness
Noun
  • In an email to Krebs, Valadon claimed that the repo’s commit logs show that GitHub’s default protections against committing secrets—protections designed to protect unwitting or unskilled developers against exactly this kind of stupidness—had been disabled by the repo’s administrator.
    — Lee Hutchinson, ArsTechnica, 19 May 2026
Definition of stupidness
Noun
  • The first 10 minutes are an incredible swirl of paranoia, alcoholism, and sluggish dumbness when Gould just needs to feed his cat.
    — Eric Farwell, Entertainment Weekly, 12 June 2026
  • Unlike its sibling concepts of dumbness and idiocy, stupidity isn’t really a personality trait.
    — Jonny Thomson, Big Think, 11 Feb. 2026
Definition of dumbness
Noun
  • The pressure brought forth both boneheadedness and brilliance.
    — The Athletic Staff, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2025
Definition of boneheadedness
Noun
  • Tiernan is tall but carries the denseness of frame and core strength of a guard.
    — Matthew Mowery, Chicago Tribune, 25 Apr. 2026
  • Understand how rye works in baking Though dark, dense rye bread is delicious, rye flour does not inherently create denseness in other baked goods.
    — The Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 Apr. 2026
Definition of denseness
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“Gormlessness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/gormlessness. Accessed 13 Oct. 2026.

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