We have many words. Foolishness and stupidity are common companions, but one does not require the other. Intelligent people behave foolishly all the time. The

We have many words. Foolishness and stupidity are common companions, but one does not require the other. Intelligent people behave foolishly all the time. The distinction is one of a failure of either imagination or effort. We have other words like ignorance, incompetence, impairment, and none of these require a lack of cognitive ability, though the latter implies diminished capacity. Bombast, however, typically seeks to oversimplify for the sake of provocation.