idiotism

Looking back, he realizes that he suffered from early onset idiotism.

I began to learn how much I don't know, and that's the first step toward recovering from idiotism."

I class in this number, idiotism, imbecility, dulness.

Dr. Hoover even posits the idea of a 12-step program for those who want to shed their idiotism once and for all.

Working hard is idiotism?

So far, English speakers have shunned calling anything they say an idiotism, so the ambiguity remains.)

(*F3*)3 Pure chingchong idiotism with any way words all in one soluble.

Despair chained up his faculties in Idiotism, and He remained for some hours, unable to speak or move, or indeed to think.

The I-Bosses' subordinates stay stuck in ruts, too idiotic themselves to harness their boss's idiotism for their own benefit.

Similarly to some other medical terms (cretinism, idiotism), "infantilism"/"infantile" may be used pejoratively (synonymous to "immature").

He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem, and holds out baits to render thousands idle and vicious.

But not to worry: Dr. Hoover, who has a master's degree in family and marriage therapy and a doctorate in organizational dynamics, says idiotism is a treatable condition.

Constance, feeling that Sir Philip has repudiated her, falls into a melancholy, in which she talks distractedly; her uncle characterizes her state as "direct lunacy and idiotism."

We have become so used to the thought that any higher literacy is in retreat before the forces of electronic media and consumer idiotism, that perhaps to imagine the opposite has become impossible.

Pinel's classification of mental disorder simplified Cullen's 'neuroses' down to four basic types of mental disorder: melancholia, mania (insanity), dementia, and idiotism.

Along the way, they spread their idiotism - a word that a recent lunch companion forced him to coin, to distinguish the actions of Idiot Bosses from those of run-of-the-mill idiots.

I am nearly seventy-two, and I confess myself afraid of the very disagreeable methods by which we leave this world; the long death of palsy, or the degraded spectacle of aged idiotism.

By this time He had discovered that his Neighbour was not very conversible; But whether her silence proceeded from pride, discretion, timidity, or idiotism, He was still unable to decide.

Sometimes, in periods of less stringent censorship, his weekly could say things quite directly, as it did when it published an article by its featured essayist, Stefan Kisielewski, titled, "Socialism Is Idiotism."

(Although both linguistics and logic lay claim to providing theories of natural language, according to Geach, logic generally ignores the "idiotism of idiom", and sees natural languages as cluttered with idioms of no logical interest.)