Definition of "wooden-headedness" [wooden-headedness]

• The state or character of being wooden-headed; stupidity. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "Tuchman pointed to 16th Century Philip II of Spain as a kind of Nobel laureate of wooden-headedness."
• "Author Tuchman points succinctly to what flows from wooden-headedness:"
• "One look at the national security advisers arrayed behind the president was enough to see wooden-headedness."