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Definition of Idiotism
1. n. An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language.
Definition of Idiotism
1. Noun. (dated) Very severe mental retardation. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Idiotism
1. idiocy [n -S] - See also: idiocy
Lexicographical Neighbors of Idiotism
Literary usage of Idiotism
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Insanity and Other Disorders Affecting the Mind by James Cowles Prichard (1835)
"idiotism is a state in which the mental faculties have been wanting from birth,
... idiotism is an original defect, and is by this circumstance, ..."
2. A Grammar of Rhetoric and Polite Literature by Alexander Jamieson (1840)
"A sophist may make a thing appear to be what it is not; but this is very different
from showing what it is. 114. THE idiotism, or the employing ..."
3. Memoirs of the Literary and Philosophical Society of Manchester (1824)
"SOME OBSERVATIONS UPON THE LOCAL PREVALENCE OF idiotism, ... M. HE existence of
an endemic idiotism in parts of the globe far distant from each other, ..."
4. Text-book of Psychiatry: A Psychological Study of Insanity for Practitioners by Emanuel Mendel (1907)
"... I. idiotism.1 We include under idiotism those states of mental weakness and
paralysis which are conditioned by an inhibition to the development of the ..."
5. The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville, Mrs. Delany: With by Delany (Mary) (1861)
"Surely I wrote you word a month ago of his death.l It w;is a happy release to
him (I hope), for he was reduced to such a miserable state of idiotism that he ..."
6. The Pathology and therapeutics of mental diseases by J L C Schroeder van der Kolk (1870)
"Upon idiotism, or congenital insanity, I shall be absolutely silent. Only a
psychical influence may sometimes ..."
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