Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Lack of sapience or wisdom; folly; foolishness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Lack of intelligence; stupidity; folly.

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  • noun archaic stupidity; folly

Etymologies

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Latin insipientia: compare Old French insipience.

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Examples

  • The qualities that made Maynard memorable—laziness, insipience, sloppiness, lack of ambition, and a self-conscious jazz vocabulary—were a caricature that had little to do with the Beat Generation writers.

    The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

  • The qualities that made Maynard memorable—laziness, insipience, sloppiness, lack of ambition, and a self-conscious jazz vocabulary—were a caricature that had little to do with the Beat Generation writers.

    The Typewriter Is Holy Bill Morgan 2010

  • He had exhausted his powers of characteristic discrimination in the heads of the apostles; and in his attempt to give meekness to the countenance of Jesus, he sank into insipience.

    The Life Studies And Works Of Benjamin West Esq Galt, John 1820

  • He had exhausted his powers of characteristic discrimination in the heads of the apostles; and in his attempt to give meekness to the countenance of Jesus, he sank into insipience.

    The Life, Studies, and Works of Benjamin West, Esq. Composed from Materials Furnished by Himself John Galt 1809

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  • Archaic.

    Lack of wisdom.

    December 17, 2007