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idiotism

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Definitions

  1. Very severe mental retardation.

Word origin

From idiot + -ism.

Used in a sentence

  • He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem […]
  • Idiotism had long been accepted as hopeless: ‘Absolute idiocy admits of no cure,’ noted the nineteenth-century psychiatrist George Man Burrows (1771–1846).
  • […] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.

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