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stolidity


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Stolidity  \Sto*lid"i*ty\,  n.  [L.  stoliditas.] 
  The  state  or  quality  of  being  stolid;  dullness  of  intellect; 
  obtuseness;  stupidity. 
 
  Indocile,  intractable  fools,  whose  stolidity  can  baffle 
  all  arguments,  and  be  proof  against  demonstration 
  itself  --Bentley. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  stolidity 
  n  1:  apathy  demonstrated  by  an  absence  of  emotional  reactions 
  [syn:  {emotionlessness},  {impassivity},  {impassiveness}, 
  {phlegm},  {indifference},  {unemotionality}] 
  2:  an  indifference  to  pleasure  or  pain  [syn:  {stoicism},  {stolidness}] 




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