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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Idiocy \Id"i*o*cy\, n. [From idiot; cf Gr ? uncouthness, want 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 From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: idiocy n : extreme mental retardation [syn: {amentia}]
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