Hypertext Webster Gateway: "idiocy"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Idiocy \Id"i*o*cy\, n. [From idiot; cf. Gr. ? uncouthness, want
of education, fr. ?. See {Idiot}, and cf. {Idiotcy}.]
The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or
marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.

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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

idiocy
n : extreme mental retardation [syn: {amentia}]

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