nonintelligence

Absence of intelligence (thinking faculty).

Adjective

  1. Not relating to intelligence or espionage.

Origin

From non- + intelligence.

Noun

  1. Absence of intelligence (thinking faculty).
    • To understand nonintelligence, I had to become intelligent. - 1990, Hélène Cixous, Clarice Lispector, Reading with Clarice Lispector:
    • I drew that conclusion largely from the fumbling nonintelligence (relatively speaking) of men and all sentient creatures. - 1997, Theodore Dreiser, Franklin Booth, A Hoosier holiday: