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Definition of Idiocy
1. Noun. Extreme mental retardation.
Generic synonyms: Backwardness, Mental Retardation, Retardation, Slowness, Subnormality
Definition of Idiocy
1. n. The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.
Definition of Idiocy
1. Noun. (psychology) The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation. ¹
2. Noun. An act lacking intelligence or sense; an instance of senselessness; extremely foolish behaviour. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Idiocy
1. the condition of being an idiot [n -CIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idiocy
Literary usage of Idiocy
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 (1902)
"Sachs' Congenital Amau- rotic idiocy falls in group C or D, according to the author.
... (3) idiocy due to pathological bony envelope, rachitic and ..."
2. The Development of Intelligence in Children: (the Binet-Simon Scale) by Alfred Binet (1916)
"Syphilitic idiocy. 11. Cretinism (including the Endemic and Sporadic or ...
idiocy by Deprivation. In spite of the great interest of these distinctions, ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1902)
"Sachs' Congenital Amau- rotic idiocy falls in group C or D, according to the author.
... (3) idiocy due to pathological bony envelope, rachitic and ..."
4. Wharton and Stillé's Medical Jurisprudence by Francis Wharton, Moreton Stillé (1882)
"Mental and moral faculties undeveloped in idiocy, § 682. ... idiocy, when complete,
is marked by an entire absence of reason.1 The moral as well as the ..."
5. A Dictionary of Psychological Medicine: Giving the Definition, Etymology and by Daniel Hack Tuke (1892)
"A name given to those cases of idiocy which apparently commence anterior to
birth (Ireland). ... idiocy due to hypertrophy of all the cerebral structures, ..."
6. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"A general description may be profitably confined to an average case of idiocy.
The typical idiot shows not merely mental, but physical defect: a blunted ..."
7. Dictionary of Philosophy and Psychology: Including Many of the Principal by James Mark Baldwin (1901)
"A general description may be profitably confined to an average case of idiocy.
The typical idiot shows not merely mental, but physical defect ..."
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