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idiocy
  1. (psychology) The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation.
  2. An act lacking intelligence or sense; an instance of senselessness; extremely foolish behaviour.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Willing blindness seems to prevail among farmers who refuse to understand the idiocy of pricing milk at wildly differing price levels.”
      “Most of your run of the mill idiocy falls into a middle category somewhere between frightfully dim to downright dense.”
      “Be prepared for dizzying diatribes, the full range of human capability and frailty, idiocy and intelligence.”
idiot
  1. (pejorative) A person of low general intelligence.
  2. (medicine) A person of the lowest intellectual standing, a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old; a person with an IQ below 30.
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  4. Examples:
    1. “Yet, you are too stupid and self-absorbed to realize just how much of an idiot you are.”
      “If everything is explained to us, from A to Z, then even an idiot can grasp it.”
      “Elevating these wackadoos to even the most carefully vetted legitimacy lowers a writer to an idiot.”
idiotism
  1. Idiom.
  2. An overly literal translation of an idiom.
  3. Examples:
    1. “I began to learn how much I don't know, and that's the first step toward recovering from idiotism.”
      “The I-Bosses' subordinates stay stuck in ruts, too idiotic themselves to harness their boss's idiotism for their own benefit.”
      “Dr. Hoover even posits the idea of a 12-step program for those who want to shed their idiotism once and for all.”
idiotese
  1. (slang, rare) A form of language simplified to the point where even an idiot can understand it.
idiocracy
  1. (formal) Government that is based upon abstract theory.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I presume the learned governor meant to speak of a national, idiocracy, or peculiarity of constitution.”
      “The fact that the master of representation has changed identity, changes nothing with regard to its primal and unsurpassable idiocracy. ”
      “Until such time as medical science can offer brain jobs or grey matter enhancements, no amount of moolah can buy your way out of the idiocracy.”
idiolect
  1. (linguistics) The language variant used by a specific individual.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “The particular speech patterns used by an individual are termed an idiolect.”
      “We can all be categorised into a speech community by way of language, professional idiolect, local or acquired dialect, accent or habitual usage.”
      “Secondly, and connectedly, it is an attempt at absolute relinquishment of the vantage of a particular sector, class, dialect, jargon, idiolect or diction.”
idiotism
  1. (now chiefly historical) Very severe mental retardation.
  2. Examples:
    1. “I began to learn how much I don't know, and that's the first step toward recovering from idiotism.”
      “The I-Bosses' subordinates stay stuck in ruts, too idiotic themselves to harness their boss's idiotism for their own benefit.”
      “Dr. Hoover even posits the idea of a 12-step program for those who want to shed their idiotism once and for all.”
idiotfest
  1. (pejorative) An idiotic situation or thing.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Both of them looked at me and for once they had the same expression. Like they were annoyed at me for daring to interrupt their idiotfest!”
idiotcy
  1. Archaic spelling of idiocy.
  2. Examples:
    1. “Beadle goes into various shops and parlours, examining the inhabitants, always shutting the door first, and by exclusion, delay, and general idiotcy exasperating the public.”
idiocracy
  1. (humorous) A government run by idiots.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I presume the learned governor meant to speak of a national, idiocracy, or peculiarity of constitution.”
      “The fact that the master of representation has changed identity, changes nothing with regard to its primal and unsurpassable idiocracy. ”
      “Until such time as medical science can offer brain jobs or grey matter enhancements, no amount of moolah can buy your way out of the idiocracy.”
idiotry
  1. (obsolete) idiocy
idiotfests
  1. plural of idiotfest
idiocracies
idiotisms
  1. plural of idiotism
idiolects
  1. plural of idiolect
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Thus, while idiolects considered in isolation might seem random, the speech community as a whole behaved regularly.”
      “What is left is a babel of talk, of contrasting idiolects delineating the diverse characters, again well illustrated by Miola.”
      “Includes standard dialects, nonstandard dialects, idiolects, acrolects, basilects, mesolects.”
idiotcies
  1. plural of idiotcy
idiocies
  1. plural of idiocy
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  3. Examples:
    1. “With its suffocating pretensions and frequent idiocies, television has always cried out for sardonic mockery.”
      “Because of him, we read everything more closely, with a jaundiced eye, searching for hidden idiocies, subtle contradictions.”
      “Surely we have to crack down on corruption and abuse, and eliminate idiocies like the direct advertising of prescription drugs to consumers.”
idiots
  1. plural of idiot
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  3. Examples:
    1. “We have all raged at those dangerous idiots who insist on driving one-handed down the motorway at 80 mph while gabbling into a mobile phone.”
      “Thousands of young ones, all raggle-taggle but gathered together, all prepared to be clowns and make idiots of themselves.”
      “He nodded his head acknowledging my friends presence and they giggled like idiots.”
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