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Idiocy

Idiocy Meaning & Definition
Idiocy Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Idiocy?

[n] extreme mental retardation

Synonyms | Synonyms for Idiocy: amentia

Related Terms | Find terms related to Idiocy: amentia | arrested development | asininity | backwardness | battiness | blithering idiocy | brainlessness | buffoonery | clownishness | crackpottedness | crankiness | craziness | cretinism | daffiness | desipience | eccentricity | fatuity | fatuousness | folly | foolery | foolheadedness | foolishness | frivolity | frivolousness | giddiness | goofiness | half-wittedness | idiotism | imbecility | inanity | ineptitude | infantilism | insanity | lunacy | madness | mental defectiveness | mental deficiency | mental handicap | mental retardation | mindlessness | mongolianism | mongolism | mongoloid idiocy | moronism | moronity | niaiserie | nugacity | nuttiness | profound idiocy | queerness | retardation | retardment | sappiness | screwiness | senselessness | silliness | simplemindedness | simpleness | simple-wittedness | simplicity | stupidity | subnormality | thoughtlessness | triflingness | triviality | wackiness | weirdness | witlessness | zaniness | zanyism

See Also | backwardness | mental retardation | retardation | slowness | subnormality

Idiocy In Webster's Dictionary

\Id"i*o*cy\, n. [From idiot; cf. Gr. ? uncouthness, want of education, fr. ?. See {Idiot}, and cf. {Idiotcy}.] The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence. I will undertake to convict a man of idiocy, if he can not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. --F. W. Robertson.

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