idiocy

n., pl., -cies.

1. Extreme folly or stupidity.
2. A foolish or stupid utterance or deed.
3. Psychology. The state or condition of being an idiot; profound mental retardation.

[From IDIOT.]

noun

1. Foolish behavior: absurdity, folly, foolery, foolishness, imbecility, insanity, lunacy, madness, nonsense, preposterousness, senselessness, silliness, tomfoolery, zaniness. Informal craziness. See ability/inability.
2. Something that does not have or make sense: balderdash, blather, bunkum, claptrap, drivel, garbage, nonsense, piffle, poppycock, rigmarole, rubbish, tomfoolery, trash, twaddle. Informal tommyrot. Slang applesauce, baloney, bilge, bull¹, bunk², crap, hooey, malarkey. See knowledge/ignorance.

n

Definition: utter stupidity
Antonyms: brains, intelligence, sense

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A state of severe mental retardation, difficult to determine in an animal but typical examples are calves with hydranencephaly, yearling cattle with polioencephalomalacia.

• juvenile amaurotic familial i. — see amaurotic familial idiocy.

Dansk (Danish)
n. - idioti

Nederlands (Dutch)
idiotie, waanzin

Français (French)
n. - idiotie, bêtise

Deutsch (German)
n. - Idiotie, Schwachsinn, Dummheit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - ηλιθιότητα, ιδιωτεία

Italiano (Italian)
idiozia, ebetismo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - idiotismo (m)

Русский (Russian)
идиотизм, глупая выходка

Español (Spanish)
n. - idiotez

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - idioti, idiotisk handling

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
白痴, 白痴的行为

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 白癡, 白癡的行為

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 백치, 백치 같은 행위

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 白痴, 白痴的言動

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) بلاهه, حماقه‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אידיוטיות, טיפשות‬

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