Word Meanings - IDIOCY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: IDIOCY

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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IDIOCY)

• Aberration
• Wandering
• divergence
• deviation
• desultoriness
• rambling
• disconnectedness
• hallucination
• inconsecutiveness
• idiocy
• insanity
• exception
• abnormity

Related words: (words related to IDIOCY)

• WANDERMENT
  The act of wandering, or roaming. Bp. Hall.
• EXCEPTIONER
  One who takes exceptions or makes objections. Milton.
• ABERRATION
  A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit,
• WANDEROO
  A large monkey native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also maha, silenus, neelbhunder, lion-tailed baboon, and great wanderoo. Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other
• RAMBLINGLY
  In a rambling manner.
• EXCEPTIONAL
  Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior. Lyell. This particular spot had exceptional advantages. Jowett -- Ex*cep"tion*al*ly , adv.
• WANDERINGLY
  In a wandering manner.
• RAMBLE
  Etym: 1. To walk, ride, or sail, from place to place, without any determinate object in view; to roam carelessly or irregularly; to rove; to wander; as, to ramble about the city; to ramble over the world. He that is at liberty to ramble in perfect
• INSANITY
  Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility. Syn. - Insanity, Lunacy,
• IDIOCYCLOPHANOUS
  See IDIOPHANOUS
• EXCEPTIONABLE
  Liable to exception or objection; objectionable. -- Ex*cep"tion*a*ble*ness, n. This passage I look upon to be the most exceptionable in the whole poem. Addison.
• DESULTORINESS
  The quality of being desultory or without order or method; unconnectedness. The seeming desultoriness of my method. Boyle.
• INCONSECUTIVENESS
  The state or quality of not being consecutive. J. H. Newman.
• RAMBLING
  Roving; wandering; discursive; as, a rambling fellow, talk, or building.
• WANDERER
  One who wanders; a rambler; one who roves; hence, one who deviates from duty.
• IDIOCY
  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.
• ABERRATIONAL
  Characterized by aberration.
• WANDERING
  a. & n. from Wander, v. Wandering albatross , the great white albatross. See Illust. of Albatross. -- Wandering cell , an animal cell which possesses the power of spontaneous movement, as one of the white corpuscles of the blood. -- Wandering
• EXCEPTIONLESS
  Without exception. A universal, . . . exceptionless disqualification. Bancroft.
• EXCEPTION
  An objection, oral or written, taken, in the course of an action, as to bail or security; or as to the decision of a judge, in the course of a trail, or in his charge to a jury; or as to lapse of time, or scandal, impertinence, or insufficiency
• SCRAMBLING
  Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling. -- Scram"bling*ly, adv. A huge old scrambling bedroom. Sir W. Scott.
• FORWANDER
  To wander away; to go astray; to wander far and to weariness.
• BRAMBLING
  The European mountain finch ; -- called also bramble finch and bramble.
• SCRAMBLED EGGS
  Eggs of which the whites and yolks are stirred together while cooking, or eggs beaten slightly, often with a little milk, and stirred while cooking.
• BRAMBLY
  Pertaining to, resembling, or full of, brambles. "In brambly wildernesses." Tennyson.
• SCRAMBLE
  1. To clamber with hands and knees; to scrabble; as, to scramble up a cliff; to scramble over the rocks. 2. To struggle eagerly with others for something thrown upon the ground; to go down upon all fours to seize something; to catch rudely at what
• BRAMBLE
  Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub. The thorny brambles, and embracing bushes. Shak.
• BRAMBLE BUSH
  The bramble, or a collection of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose.