blockheadism

noun

blockheadism

noun

Etymology From blockhead + -ism.

1

The character or behaviour of a blockhead; stupidity or idiocy.

Robespierre, when he heard of it, broke out into something almost like swearing at the brutish blockheadism of this Hébert[.]1837, Thomas Carlyle, chapter VII, in The French Revolution: A History […], volume III (The Guillotine), London: James Fraser, […], →OCLC, book IV (Terror), page 272:

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