the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Lack of intelligence; stupidity; folly.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
n. Lack of sapience or wisdom; folly; foolishness.
Word Usage
"The qualities that made Maynard memorable—laziness, insipience, sloppiness, lack of ambition, and a self-conscious jazz vocabulary—were a caricature that had little to do with the Beat Generation writers."