Idiocy

Noun

 * 1)  The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation.
 * 2) An act lacking intelligence or sense; an instance of senselessness; extremely foolish behaviour.
 * The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy, put a new policy in place.

Related terms

 * idiot
 * idiotic
 * idiotically
 * idiocracy

Adjectives for Idiocy
sublimest; teeth-chattering; morbid; impertinent.

Thesaurus
amentia, arrested development, asininity, backwardness, battiness, blithering idiocy, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, cretinism, daffiness, desipience, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, giddiness, goofiness, half-wittedness, idiotism, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, infantilism, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap, mental retardation, mindlessness, mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, profound idiocy, queerness, retardation, retardment, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, stupidity, subnormality, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism

Alternative forms

 * idiotcy

Etymology
Could be from ἰδιωτεία:, or perhaps simply from idiot: + -cy:.

Translations

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 * French: idiotie
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 * Volapük: diot