Definition of Idiocy. Meaning of Idiocy. Synonyms of Idiocy

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Definition of Idiocy

Idiocy
Idiocy 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.

Meaning of Idiocy from wikipedia

- people with mental disabilities is considered archaic and offensive. Moral idiocy refers to a moral disability. The word "idiot" ultimately comes from the...
- The obsolete medical terms Mongolian idiocy and Mongolism referred to a specific type of mental deficiency, ****ociated with the genetic disorder now known...
- Moral idiocy is an inability to distinguish between right and wrong, or to understand how moral values apply to one's own life and the lives of others...
- familial basis, proposed that the disease should be called amaurotic familial idiocy. However, its genetic basis was still poorly understood. Although Gregor...
- The B****oon King: My Life in Art, Faith, and Idiocy is a nonfiction book by American actor Rainn Wilson, published in November 2015 by Dutton. It is a...
- Artificial stupidity is a term used within the field of computer science to refer to a technique of "dumbing down" computer programs in order to deliberately...
- 2019. Retrieved October 4, 2019. Martin, George R. R. (May 13, 2019). "Idiocy on the Internet". Archived from the original on May 14, 2019. Retrieved...
- normal and 'abnormal' intelligence. Binet and Simon grouped children into: 'idiocy', 'imbecility' 'debility' and 'normality'. Each category had its own set...
- affected were often referred to as "Mongoloids" or in terms of "Mongolian idiocy" or "Mongolian imbecility". Mongolian as a term for race was first introduced...
- and the ideas have been characterized as quackery and described as "utter idiocy". Electrohomeopathy was devised by Cesare Mattei (1809–1896) in the latter...