Antonyms for battiness
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : bat-ee |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˈbæt i |
Definition of battiness
Origin :- 1580s, "pertaining to bats," from bat (n.2) + -y (2). Slang sense "nuts, crazy" is attested from 1903, from the expression (to have) bats in (one's) belfry, also meaning "not be right in the head" (1899).
- As in stupidity : noun dullness of mind
- But it had been all over in a breath, just an open-and-shut piece of battiness, same as fellers have when they jump a bridge.
- Extract from : « Shorty McCabe » by Sewell Ford
Synonyms for battiness
- absurdity
- apathy
- asininity
- battiness
- brainlessness
- doltishness
- fatuity
- fatuousness
- feeble-mindedness
- idiocy
- ignorance
- imbecility
- imprudence
- incapacity
- ineptitude
- injudiciousness
- insensibility
- lunacy
- nitwittedness
- nonsense
- obtuseness
- puerility
- shallowness
- silliness
- simplicity
- slowness
- sluggishness
- stolidity
- stupefaction
- stupidness
- stupor
- thick-headedness
- weak-mindedness
- weakness
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