Stupidly miss grasping flipping fancy bit of logic (9)
I believe the answer is:
syllogism
'logic' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both related to thinking as well as being singular nouns.
Perhaps there's an association between them I don't understand?
'stupidly miss grasping flipping fancy bit' is the wordplay.
'stupidly' indicates anagramming the letters (a stupid ordering of the letters).
'grasping' is an insertion indicator (inserted letters are held or grasped).
'flipping' shows that the letters should be reversed in order.
'fancy bit' becomes 'golly' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'golly' back-to-front is 'yllog'.
'miss' anagrammed gives 'sism'.
'sism' enclosing 'yllog' is 'SYLLOGISM'.
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for syllogism that I've seen is " Deductive reasoning".)