Gormlessness and Percipience

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Gormlessness noun - The quality or state of lacking intelligence or quickness of mind.

Usage example: the backbencher professed himself horrified by the gormlessness and naïveté of the prime minister

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Percipience is an antonym for gormlessness.

Percipience noun - The knowledge gained from the process of coming to know or understand something.

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Gormlessness is an antonym for percipience.

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