idiotism
English
Etymology 1
From idiot + -ism.
Noun
idiotism (countable and uncountable, plural idiotisms)
- (now chiefly historical) Very severe mental retardation.
- 1791 (date written), Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman: With Strictures on Political and Moral Subjects, 1st American edition, Boston, Mass.: […] Peter Edes for Thomas and Andrews, […], published 1792, OCLC 5625662194:
- He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem […]
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 488:
- Idiotism had long been accepted as hopeless: ‘Absolute idiocy admits of no cure,’ noted the nineteenth-century psychiatrist George Man Burrows (1771–1846).
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- A foolish utterance.
- 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:
- […] 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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Etymology 2
From Latin idiotismus.
Noun
idiotism (plural idiotisms)
- Idiom.
- An overly literal translation of an idiom.
Romanian
Etymology
From French idiotisme.
Noun
idiotism n (plural idiotisme)
- idiotism
Declension
Declension of idiotism
singular | plural | |||
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indefinite articulation | definite articulation | indefinite articulation | definite articulation | |
nominative/accusative | (un) idiotism | idiotismul | (niște) idiotisme | idiotismele |
genitive/dative | (unui) idiotism | idiotismului | (unor) idiotisme | idiotismelor |
vocative | idiotismule | idiotismelor |