Meaning of midwit | Babel Free

Definitions

A person of middling intellect; someone who is neither particularly dull nor particularly smart, especially if they act as though they are smarter than they are.

Internet, derogatory, mildly, neologism

Examples

“At no point in this process does the midwit have to review information for himself or consider ideas in abstract. […] How then should we not be midwits? Painting with broad strokes: avoid media. Cultivate taste. Grow and train your sense of aesthetics. Recognize beauty. Practice virtue. Pray.”

“A true paragon nation captures the midwit, get-the-news-from-Trevor-Noah demographic.”

“Congress is packed with midwits. There are no intellectuals in Congress. None could flourish in such a mediocre environment.”

“Online, people make fun of midwits with a specific meme format: an IQ bell curve, with a character placed at each extreme and one above the bulge in the middle. […] One example of the midwit trap is investing. Above, the midwit – perhaps a Reddit-browsing amateur trader, or the solid kind of chap who works in wealth management – will go on about hot stocks and market conditions.”

“It is still a midwit dinner party applause line that such and such a percentage of Americans don't have passports.”

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