All witlessness synonyms

noun witlessness

• carrying-on — unconventional or questionable behaviour
• ludicrousness — The state or quality of being ludicrous.
• unreasonableness — not reasonable or rational; acting at variance with or contrary to reason; not guided by reason or sound judgment; irrational: an unreasonable person.
• alienation — a turning away; estrangement
• dementia — Dementia is a serious illness of the mind.
• frenzy — extreme mental agitation; wild excitement or derangement.
• hysteria — an uncontrollable outburst of emotion or fear, often characterized by irrationality, laughter, weeping, etc.
• mental disorder — any of the various forms of psychosis or severe neurosis.
• aberration — An aberration is an incident or way of behaving that is not typical.
• delirium — If someone is suffering from delirium, they are not able to think or speak in a sensible and reasonable way because they are very ill and have a fever.
• delusion — A delusion is a false idea.
• derangement — Derangement is the state of being mentally ill and unable to think or act in a controlled way.
• distraction — the act of distracting.
• dotage — a decline of mental faculties, especially as associated with old age; senility.
• hallucination — a sensory experience of something that does not exist outside the mind, caused by various physical and mental disorders, or by reaction to certain toxic substances, and usually manifested as visual or auditory images.
• illusion — something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality.
• mania — an ancient Roman goddess of the dead.
• neurosis — Also called psychoneurosis. a functional disorder in which feelings of anxiety, obsessional thoughts, compulsive acts, and physical complaints without objective evidence of disease, in various degrees and patterns, dominate the personality.
• phobia — a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it.
• psychopathy — a mental disorder in which an individual manifests amoral and antisocial behavior, lack of ability to love or establish meaningful personal relationships, extreme egocentricity, failure to learn from experience, etc.
• psychosis — a mental disorder characterized by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations, that indicate impaired contact with reality.
• unbalance — to throw or put out of balance.
• asininity — the quality or state of being asinine; stupidity
• frivolity — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
• giddiness — affected with vertigo; dizzy.
• ineptitude — quality or condition of being inept.