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insipientia

insipientia, unwisdom, folly

insĭpĭentĭa, ae, f. [insipiens],
  • want of wisdom, senselessness, folly (class.): ita fit, ut sapientia sanitas sit animi, insipientia autem quasi insanitas quaedam, quae est insania eademque dementia, Cic. Tusc. 3, 5, 10; 3, 28, 68; Plaut. Am. prol. 36; id. Mil. 3, 3, 5 (879); id. Poen. 5, 2, 130 (1090).

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