insipience

English

Etymology

Latin insipientia: compare Old French insipience.

Noun

insipience (uncountable)

  1. (archaic) stupidity; folly
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for insipience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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