addleheadedness

noun

addleheadedness

noun

Etymology From addleheaded + -ness.

1

The quality of being addleheaded.

I've talked with him a couple of times, and he's not so stupid that he'd state such things out of sheer addleheadedness.1983, Arvo Tuominen, Piltti Heiskanen, The Bells of the Kremlin: An Experience in Communism, page 149:

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