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English
Etymology
From Latin insipientia: compare Old French insipience.Equivalent to in- + sapience.
Pronunciation
Noun
insipience (uncountable)
- (archaic) stupidity; folly
a. 1696, Thomas Beverley, Treatise:the Insipience of the Many of the Age
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