Meaning of IDIOCY
| Pronunciation: | | 'ideeusee
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| | Definition: | | [n] extreme mental retardation |
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| | Synonyms: | | amentia |
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| | See Also: | | backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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