'Idiocy' definitions:
Definition of 'Idiocy'
From: GCIDE
- Idiocy \Id"i*o*cy\ ([i^]d"[i^]*[-o]*s[y^]), n. [From idiot; cf. Gr. ? uncouthness, lack of education, fr. ?. See Idiot, and cf. Idiotcy.] The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'idiocy'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amentia,
- arrested development,
- asininity,
- backwardness,
- battiness,
- blithering idiocy,
- brainlessness,
- buffoonery,
- clownishness,
- crackpottedness,
- crankiness,
- craziness,
- cretinism,
- daffiness,
- desipience,
- eccentricity,
- fatuity,
- fatuousness,
- folly,
- foolery,
- foolheadedness,
- foolishness,
- frivolity,
- frivolousness,
- giddiness,
- goofiness,
- half-wittedness,
- idiotism,
- imbecility,
- inanity,
- ineptitude,
- infantilism,
- insanity,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- mental defectiveness,
- mental deficiency,
- mental handicap,
- mental retardation,
- mindlessness,
- mongolianism,
- mongolism,
- mongoloid idiocy,
- moronism,
- moronity,
- niaiserie,
- nugacity,
- nuttiness,
- profound idiocy,
- queerness,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- sappiness,
- screwiness,
- senselessness,
- silliness,
- simple-wittedness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- stupidity,
- subnormality,
- thoughtlessness,
- triflingness,
- triviality,
- wackiness,
- weirdness,
- witlessness,
- zaniness,
- zanyism