addleheadedness

English

Etymology

addleheaded +‎ -ness

Noun

addleheadedness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being addleheaded.
    • 1983, Arvo Tuominen, Piltti Heiskanen, The Bells of the Kremlin: An Experience in Communism, page 149:
      I've talked with him a couple of times, and he's not so stupid that he'd state such things out of sheer addleheadedness.
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