Dictionary

unintelligence en · NOUN

Etymology

From un- + intelligence.

Meanings

1. (uncountable, usually) Lack of intelligence.
   • There is a way in which Britain is certain to have war and its horrors and calamities; it is this--by persisting in her present course of unpreparedness, her apathy, unintelligence, and blindness, and in her disregard of the warnings of the most ordinary political insight, as well as of the example of history. 1912, Norman Angell, Peace Theories and the Balkan War:
   • The Intelligence Office proved to be as much misnamed as those institutions usually are, and varying degrees of unintelligence were shown in the candidates offered for the position of cook at Boxley Hall; though, if the applicants seemed unsatisfactory to Patty, in many cases she was no less so to them. 1904, Carolyn Wells, “Servants”, in Patty at Home, New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, →OCLC, pages 69–70:

Forms

Deriveds

artificial unintelligence

Relateds

unintelligent

Translations (4)

ca inintel·ligència (lack of intelligence) · fr inintelligence (lack of intelligence) · it inintelligenza (lack of intelligence) · ota شاشقینلق (lack of intelligence)