Idiocy
['ɪdɪəsɪ] or ['ɪdɪəsi]
Definition
(n.) The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Foolishness, imbecility, fatuity, feebleness of intellect, want of understanding.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Imbecility, aberration, insanity, fatuity
ANT:Sanity, sagacity, intelligence, sense, judgment
Typist: Penelope
Definition
See Idiot.
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Examples
- Neglect it--go on as heretofore, craving, whining, and idling--and suffer the results of your idiocy, however bad and insuperable they may be. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- In this war there is an idiocy without bounds. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Because he can see the results of an idiocy in advance. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Terror seemed to have struck him with downright idiocy--he waited at my heels, he followed me about when I moved like a dog. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- It is an idiocy and a weakness not to have killed him, the gypsy said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- We swim within the idiocy for a year now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
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