Crossword clues for idiocy
idiocy
- Utter foolishness
- Sheer folly
- Opposite of sheer genius
- Foolish behavior
- Stupid stuff
- Mindless behavior
- Utter stupidity
- Total stupidness
- Supreme folly
- Senseless behavior
- Numskull's trait
- Numbskull's trait
- Moron's behavior
- Lack of rationale
- It makes no sense
- It doesn't make sense
- Inane behavior
- Foolishness, stupidity
- Dunce's display
- Dolt's display
- Complete folly
- Brainless behavior
- Inanity
- Boneheadedness
- Dumbness
- Three Stooges specialty
- Total nonsense
- Three Stooges display
- Folly
- Senselessness
- Opposite of brilliance
- Extreme mental retardation
- Anoia
- Oligophrenia
- Anoesia
- Stupid behavior
- Foolish act
- Very stupid behaviour
- Very cool about love after one day's folly
- Stupidity of ten caught in awful DIY
- The presidio cynically admits stupidity
- Extreme foolishness
- Extreme folly
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Idiocy \Id"i*o*cy\ ([i^]d"[i^]*[-o]*s[y^]), n. [From idiot; cf. Gr. ? uncouthness, lack 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1520s, from idiot on model of prophecy, etc. Early alternatives included idiotacy (1580s), idiotry (1590s).
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context psychology English) 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.
WordNet
n. extreme mental retardation [syn: amentia]
Usage examples of "idiocy".
He felt the hopelessness of this idiocy, and then Mendora called them forward.
Or commanded to work some idiocy like burn all the crops or poison the Silverflow itself?
Of course he had been through that mess on Sirialis, and being shot in the gut was, according to the redoubtable Captain Serrano, a specific for youthful idiocy, but still.
The stone idiocy of this had the Caucusers in the crowd screaming, but they could not hold back the armed few who went to punish the xenians.
There was a time, which the Councillors described briefly in shameThe Idiocy, they called itwhen the train itself had been ripped by civil war, over strategy, over how to continue.
They buried their own dead where they could, except for one, a Remade woman famous for mediating during The Idiocy, long before.
Tora only half listened as Anna harangued her about the idiocy of her actions.
As a matter of fact, I consider it my personal obligation, my reason for existence, if you want to know the truth of it, to fight idiocy at every turn.
If there is to be a war, it will be the supremest act of idiocy that has perhaps occurred in the history of humankind.
Within minutes, he was springing into action over the spires of his city and into the idiocy that it was his job to somehow hold at bay.
The second is, as I said, that she believes in this idiocy, and I wish to tell her that she is mistaken.
Raven had indeed been clutching that bit of romantic idiocy to his bosom.
But so long as the fleet is strong, something perhaps can be done to save Earth from the idiocy of the politicians.
Dostoevsky is in love with the freedoms released by the rhetoric of idiocy and the poetics of epilepsy.
He blocked any opportunity for me to be promoted off the Pagh, keeping me firmly under his heel while he stumbled through command with the same idiocy he displayed against the Enterprise .