Meaning of idiotism | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Very severe mental retardation.
   countable, historical, uncountable
2. Idiom.
3. A foolish utterance.
   countable, uncountable
4. An overly literal translation of an idiom.

Equivalents

Examples

“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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