Definition of Imbecility

1. Noun. Retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot.


2. Noun. A stupid mistake.
Exact synonyms: Betise, Folly, Foolishness, Stupidity
Generic synonyms: Error, Fault, Mistake

Definition of Imbecility

1. n. The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.

Definition of Imbecility

1. Noun. The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind. ¹

2. Noun. Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Imbecility

1. [n -TIES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Imbecility

imbathing
imbauba
imbay
imbayed
imbaying
imbays
imbecile
imbeciles
imbecilic
imbecilically
imbecilitate
imbecilitated
imbecilitates
imbecilitating
imbecilities
imbecility (current term)
imbed
imbedded
imbedding
imbeds
imbellic
imbenching
imbenchings
imber-goose
imberb
imbetween
imbezzle
imbezzled
imbezzles
imbezzling

Literary usage of Imbecility

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1899)
"THE MENTAL AFFECTIONS OF CHILDREN, IDIOCY, imbecility AND INSANITY, by William W. Ireland ... The Definition of Idiocy and imbecility, Statistics of Idiocy. ..."

2. Outlines of Psychiatry by William Alanson White (1915)
"IDIOCY AND imbecility. In drawing a distinction between dementia and idiocy, ESQUIROL well said: " The demented man is deprived of the good that he formerly ..."

3. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity: With References to the Scotch and by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1880)
"imbecility is, as we have already seen, only a less degree of idiocy. ... But imbecility is not to be confounded with a mental weakness which results from ..."

4. The Medical and Surgical Reporter (1881)
"Types of imbecility. In February last, at a meeting of the Harveian Society of London, Dr. Fletcher Beach read a paper " On Types of imbecility. ..."

5. The Diagnostics of internal medicine: A Clinical Treatise Upon the by Glentworth Reeve Butler (1906)
"X. IDIOCY AND imbecility Idiocy.—A condition of profound mental defectiveness either ... A condition midway between idiocy and imbecility. imbecility. ..."

6. The Medical Jurisprudence of Insanity by John Hutton Balfour Browne (1875)
"imbecility in relation to Crime.—We had occasion to say incidentally in the ... Hence, we see the necessity of considering the question of imbecility in ..."

7. The Psychology of Childhood by Frederick Tracy, Joseph Stimpfl (1909)
"imbecility. The chief symptoms of this mental disease are weakness of memory ... imbecility is of three grades, according to the degree of mental weakness. ..."

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