What does idiotism mean?
Idiotism means (now chiefly historical) Very severe mental retardation..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(now chiefly historical) Very severe mental retardation..
He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem […]
Idiotism had long been accepted as hopeless: ‘Absolute idiocy admits of no cure,’ noted the nineteenth-century psychiatrist George Man Burrows (1771–1846).
[…] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.
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Idiotism means (now chiefly historical) Very severe mental retardation..
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He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem […]
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