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Idiocy

Ĭd'i-o-çy, n.

noun

n. [Gr. ἰδιωτεία, from ἰδιώτης. See IDIOT, and cf. IDIOTCY.] The condition of being an idiot, or idiotic; natural 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.

Ĭd'i-ot-cy, n.

noun

n. [Cf. IDIOCY.] State of being an idiot or idiotic. [Rare.]