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idiocy

noun

1 idiocy

Extreme mental retardation.

synonym: amentia.

Roget 499: want of intelligence etc. 498, want of intellect etc. 450; shadowness, silliness, foolishness etc. adj.; imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, ... show more

Roget 655: disease; illness, sickness etc. adj.; ailing &c.; all the ills that flesh is heir to" [Hamlet]; morbidity, morbosity; infirmity, ailment, indisposition; ... show more

Dutch: idiotie, idiotisme, oligofrenie


Moby thesaurus: amentia, arrested development, asininity, backwardness, battiness, blithering idiocy, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, cretinism, daffiness, desipience, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery ... show more.

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