imbecility

noun

1. (uncountable)The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.

   “The police prosecutor hammered at him and the bench had a go at him, and they commanded from him such a madhouse particularity between the distinctions of looking and seeing that Bradly was reduced to imbecility, and so contradictious were his mutterings that he was openly suspected of trying to shield that wretched tramp, whom Bradly would have gladly seen sunk in the bottomless pit reserved for snoopers.”

   “He [Ben Shapiro] wielded a particularly pointed arrow at Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, for engaging in what he said was “an act of moral imbecility,” by recently airing a softball interview with Nick Fuentes, an avowed antisemite.”

2. (countable, uncountable)Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.

   “The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility.”

   “The procedure of musical comedy is not reducible to a coherent formula, so that its imbecilities may be annotated by super imbecilities.”