Idiotism
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Idiotism is a noun meaning (now chiefly historical) Very severe mental retardation.
Meaning
(now chiefly historical) Very severe mental retardation.
More Meanings
- A foolish utterance.
- An overly literal translation of an idiom.
Example Sentences
He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem […]
[…] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.
Idiotism had long been accepted as hopeless: ‘Absolute idiocy admits of no cure,’ noted the nineteenth-century psychiatrist George Man Burrows (1771–1846).
Word Forms
- idiotisms
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include drivelling, retardism, crazyitis, scotosis, egoitis, hebephrenia.
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