obtuseness
111insight — penetration, acumen, *discernment, discrimination, perception Analogous words: intuition, understanding, *reason: comprehension, apprehension (see under APPREHEND): appreciation, understanding (see corresponding verbs at UNDERSTAND):… …
112obscurantist — n Obscurantist, philistine, barbarian denote one inaccessible or opposed to enlightenment. An obscurantist is one who is precluded (as by prejudice, traditionalism, or bigotry) from intellectual candor and open minded inquiry and who is opposed… …
113simple — adj 1 *pure, absolute, sheer Analogous words: elemental, *elementary: *single, sole Antonyms: compound: complex 2 *easy, facile, light, effortless, smooth Analogous words: clear, plain, distinct, obvious, * …
114asininity — n 1. stupidity, stupidness, Inf. dumbness, Inf. dopiness, empty headedness, unintelligence, dullness, fatuity; doltishness, oafishness, loutishness, obtuseness; obstinacy, obstinateness, stubbornness. 2. idiocy, Inf. moronity, Inf. moronism,… …
115density — n 1. denseness, compactness, crowdedness, tightness, closeness, cohesiveness; thickness, richness, substance, body; bulk, massiveness, heaviness, weight, mass, solidity, solidness; impenetrability, impenetra bleness, impermeability,… …
116fatuity — n 1. silliness, absurdity, absurdness, Archaic. insipience, foolishness, fatuousness, infatuation; unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicalness, illogicality; asininity, idiocy, idioticalness, Inf. moronism, Inf. moronity, imbecility; craziness …
117folly — n 1. absurdity, absurdness, inanity, point lessness, fatuousness; senselessness, nonsense, nonsen sicalness, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, Archaic. insipience; unreasonableness, irrationality, illogicalness, illogicality; preposterousness,… …
118nothingness — n 1. nihility, nullity, nonexistence, Fr. nbant. existencelessness; nonreality, nonlife, unreality, unactuality; incorporeality, insubstantiality, nonsubsistence, inexistence; nonentity, inessentiality, nonbeing, immateriality, imponderability,… …
119opacity — n 1. opaqueness, nontransparency, cloudiness, filminess; muddiness, murkiness, fuligi nosity, smokiness, darkness; obfuscation, obscurity, blurriness, fuzziness, unclarity, unclearness, vagueness; haziness, fogginess, mistiness; overclouding,… …
120Philistinism — n middlebrowism, Inf. lowbrowism, conventionalism, conventionality, conformism, conformance, conformity; traditionalism, formalism, precisianism; obtuseness, dullness, boorishness, yahooism …
