idiocyn.

Brit.

/ˈɪdɪəsi/, U.S.

/ˈɪdiəsi/

Forms: 1500s idiosy, 1500s–1600s idiocie, 1600s ideocie, 1600s ideocy, 1600s– idiocy.

Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly a borrowing from Latin. Probably partly a borrowing from Greek. Probably partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin idiotia ; Greek ἰδιωτεία ; idiot n., -y suffix³.

Etymology: Probably partly < post-classical Latin idiotia state or condition of being an idiot, imbecility (from 14th cent. in British sources) and its etymon ancient Greek ἰδιωτεία state or condition of being a private person, in Hellenistic Greek also uncouthness, want of education ( < ἰδιώτης idiot n. + -εία -y suffix³), and partly < idiot n. + -y suffix³ (compare -cy suffix), after e.g. prophecy n., etc. Compare French idiotie (1818). Compare earlier idiotry n. and later idiotacy n., idiotcy n.

a. (a) Chiefly Law and Psychiatry. The state or condition of being severely subnormal in respect of mental capacity (see idiot n. 2a); natural absence or marked deficiency of ordinary understanding. Now historical in technical use. (b) Extremely stupid character or behaviour; foolishness, irrationality. colloquial.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > excessive

midsummer maze1523

idiocy1528

idiotacy1583

midsummer madnessa1616

supernodity1622

idioticalness1668

jackassness1803

jackassism1817

jackassery1833

damfoolishness1882

damfoolery1909

the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] > type of

idiotry1488

idiocy1607

cretinage1790

cretinism1791

infantilism1895

mongolism1899

mental handicap1912

1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Avi^v Your madde Ipocrisy And your idiosy And your vayne glorie Haue made you eate the flye.

1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. iv. f. 119 ^v Wit, reason, vnderstanding and iudgement being once empayred, aud diminished: there steppeth in place, Sottage, forgetfulnes, amazednesse, dotage, folishnes, lacke of right wits, doltishnes & idiocie [L. fatuitas iners ac stolida].

1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Nn2^v/2 Idiota inquirenda..is a writ that is directed to the excheator..to call before him the party suspected of Idiocie, & examin him.

1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 95 The king shall haue to his owne vse..all the possessions of a foole naturall, not of any other Ideot during his ideocy.

1669 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia 107 If an Idiot or Lunatick (who cannot be said to have any will, and so cannot offend) during his Idiocy or Lunacy, shall kill, or go about to kill the King, he shall be punisht as a Traytor; and yet being Non compos mentis, the Law holds that he cannot commit Felony or Petit Treason, not other sorts of High Treason.

1700 J. Brydall Non Compos Mentis iii. xvii. 49 An Executor having obtained Iudgment in an Accompt, and having the Defendant in Execution for Arrerages, and the Testament being afterwards annulled for Idiocy in the Testator, whether the Testament being disapproved, an Audita Querela will lie for the Defendant?

a1732 J. Ayliffe New Pandect Rom. Civil Law (1734) ii. xl. 237 Madness and Idiocy, though each of them do hinder a Contract of Matrimony; yet Madness dissolves not Matrimony after it is contracted.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (1809) I. viii. 306 When a man on an inquest of idiocy hath been returned an unthrift and not an idiot, no farther proceedings have been had.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 118 It was apparently neither idiocy nor insanity which gave that wild, unsettled, irregular expression to a face which naturally was rather handsome.

1874 H. Maudsley Respons. in Mental Dis. iii. 66 Idiocy is a defect of mind which is either congenital, or due to causes operating during the first few years of life.

1907 W. I. Thomas Sex & Society (1913) 19 Morphologically men are the more unstable element of society, and this instability expresses itself in the two extremes of genius and idiocy.

1916 W. Archer in W. L. Phelps Twentieth Cent. Theatre (1918) 66 Several pieces which do not proclaim their idiocy in their titles are in fact as idiotic as the rest.

1919 V. Bell Let. 6 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (1993) v. 230 My goodness, I could show up doctors, couldn't I—all this time of anxiety and worry and the risk to the baby, because of the idiocy and obstinacy of that old man.

1954 G. Smith Flaw in Crystal xxi. 218 I had known the Office too long and too intimately to think them guilty of such bungling idiocy.

1958 A. Korzybski Sci. & Sanity (ed. 4) iii. ix. 118 Paired with these physical colloidal states are also nervous, ‘mental’, and other characteristics, which vary from weak and nervous to the extreme limitation of nervous activities, as in idiocy, which is a negation of activity.

1996 G. E. Berrios Hist. Mental Symptoms vii. 161 It was this new fatalism..that precipitated the challenge to the view that idiocy was a form of mental illness.

2006 Games TM No. 49. 104/1 Nothing could ever match the sheer hair-pulling idiocy of The Angel Of Death's tasks.

b. As a count noun: a stupid or foolish action, remark, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] > stupid deed, thought, etc.

sotheada1200

dotage1528

stupidity1594

sottery1598

dote1643

sottise1673

idiocy1822

jobbernowlism1824

noodledom1827

noodleism1829

crassitude1865

1822 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 196 A chain of strange almost Idiocies, Neglects, Provocations, and Promise-breach.

1895 Western Mail 7 Aug. 7/5 Only each other will listen to the puerile idiocies they pour forth.

1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah Pref. p. ix I habitually derided Neo-Darwinism as a ghastly idiocy.

1968 Punch 11 Dec. 858/1 The idiocies of British holiday habits, which tend to waver between ‘slurping up the kilometres’ and getting away from it all amid insanitary souks.

2008 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 22 Feb. a8 Various idiocies have poured from their lips.

c. Used humorously as a title.

ΚΠ

1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. ix. 246 So please your idiocy, thou art an ass.

2006 Mediaweek (Nexis) 2 Oct. At her trial, Marie Antoinette showed courage, though many historians believe that addressing the judge as ‘Your Idiocy’ may have been a fatal error.

†2. Probably: ignorance. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun]

unwisdomc825

nutelnessa1200

ignorance?c1225

uncunningc1290

uncunnessa1300

unwittingnessa1300

unknowledging1357

lewdness1362

unsciencec1374

mislearninga1382

simplenessa1382

unknowinga1382

ignorancec1384

unwittingc1384

simplessec1391

rudenessc1400

unweeting14..

lewdhead1401

misknowing?a1425

simplicityc1450

unknowledge1470

discognisancec1475

unknowingness1486

non-knowledge1503

ignorancy1526

simplehead1543

unlearnedness1555

ignoration1563

rusticity1571

ignorantness1574

ignoring1578

inscience1578

ignoramus1583

ingramness1589

lack-learning1590

idiotism1598

ignoramus1598

idiocy1605

nesciencea1625

nescio1637

inerudition1685

unawareness1847

agnosia1879

moronism1922

cluelessness1960

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 312 The suspected vertue of this Tree Shall soone disperse the cloud of Idiocie [Fr. la nue d'ignorance], Which dims your eyes.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	idiocy
释义	idiocyn. Brit. /ˈɪdɪəsi/, U.S. /ˈɪdiəsi/ Forms: 1500s idiosy, 1500s–1600s idiocie, 1600s ideocie, 1600s ideocy, 1600s– idiocy. Origin: Probably of multiple origins. Probably partly a borrowing from Latin. Probably partly a borrowing from Greek. Probably partly formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Latin idiotia ; Greek ἰδιωτεία ; idiot n., -y suffix³. Etymology: Probably partly < post-classical Latin idiotia state or condition of being an idiot, imbecility (from 14th cent. in British sources) and its etymon ancient Greek ἰδιωτεία state or condition of being a private person, in Hellenistic Greek also uncouthness, want of education ( < ἰδιώτης idiot n. + -εία -y suffix³), and partly < idiot n. + -y suffix³ (compare -cy suffix), after e.g. prophecy n., etc. Compare French idiotie (1818). Compare earlier idiotry n. and later idiotacy n., idiotcy n. 1. a. (a) Chiefly Law and Psychiatry. The state or condition of being severely subnormal in respect of mental capacity (see idiot n. 2a); natural absence or marked deficiency of ordinary understanding. Now historical in technical use. (b) Extremely stupid character or behaviour; foolishness, irrationality. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > [noun] > excessive midsummer maze1523 idiocy1528 idiotacy1583 midsummer madnessa1616 supernodity1622 idioticalness1668 jackassness1803 jackassism1817 jackassery1833 damfoolishness1882 damfoolery1909 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mental deficiency > [noun] > type of idiotry1488 idiocy1607 cretinage1790 cretinism1791 infantilism1895 mongolism1899 mental handicap1912 1528 J. Skelton Honorificatissimo: Replycacion agaynst Yong Scolers sig. Avi^v Your madde Ipocrisy And your idiosy And your vayne glorie Haue made you eate the flye. 1576 T. Newton tr. L. Lemnie Touchstone of Complexions ii. iv. f. 119 ^v Wit, reason, vnderstanding and iudgement being once empayred, aud diminished: there steppeth in place, Sottage, forgetfulnes, amazednesse, dotage, folishnes, lacke of right wits, doltishnes & idiocie [L. fatuitas iners ac stolida]. 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Nn2^v/2 Idiota inquirenda..is a writ that is directed to the excheator..to call before him the party suspected of Idiocie, & examin him. 1613 H. Finch Law (1636) 95 The king shall haue to his owne vse..all the possessions of a foole naturall, not of any other Ideot during his ideocy. 1669 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia 107 If an Idiot or Lunatick (who cannot be said to have any will, and so cannot offend) during his Idiocy or Lunacy, shall kill, or go about to kill the King, he shall be punisht as a Traytor; and yet being Non compos mentis, the Law holds that he cannot commit Felony or Petit Treason, not other sorts of High Treason. 1700 J. Brydall Non Compos Mentis iii. xvii. 49 An Executor having obtained Iudgment in an Accompt, and having the Defendant in Execution for Arrerages, and the Testament being afterwards annulled for Idiocy in the Testator, whether the Testament being disapproved, an Audita Querela will lie for the Defendant? a1732 J. Ayliffe New Pandect Rom. Civil Law (1734) ii. xl. 237 Madness and Idiocy, though each of them do hinder a Contract of Matrimony; yet Madness dissolves not Matrimony after it is contracted. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (1809) I. viii. 306 When a man on an inquest of idiocy hath been returned an unthrift and not an idiot, no farther proceedings have been had. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 118 It was apparently neither idiocy nor insanity which gave that wild, unsettled, irregular expression to a face which naturally was rather handsome. View more context for this quotation 1874 H. Maudsley Respons. in Mental Dis. iii. 66 Idiocy is a defect of mind which is either congenital, or due to causes operating during the first few years of life. 1907 W. I. Thomas Sex & Society (1913) 19 Morphologically men are the more unstable element of society, and this instability expresses itself in the two extremes of genius and idiocy. 1916 W. Archer in W. L. Phelps Twentieth Cent. Theatre (1918) 66 Several pieces which do not proclaim their idiocy in their titles are in fact as idiotic as the rest. 1919 V. Bell Let. 6 Feb. in Sel. Lett. (1993) v. 230 My goodness, I could show up doctors, couldn't I—all this time of anxiety and worry and the risk to the baby, because of the idiocy and obstinacy of that old man. 1954 G. Smith Flaw in Crystal xxi. 218 I had known the Office too long and too intimately to think them guilty of such bungling idiocy. 1958 A. Korzybski Sci. & Sanity (ed. 4) iii. ix. 118 Paired with these physical colloidal states are also nervous, ‘mental’, and other characteristics, which vary from weak and nervous to the extreme limitation of nervous activities, as in idiocy, which is a negation of activity. 1996 G. E. Berrios Hist. Mental Symptoms vii. 161 It was this new fatalism..that precipitated the challenge to the view that idiocy was a form of mental illness. 2006 Games TM No. 49. 104/1 Nothing could ever match the sheer hair-pulling idiocy of The Angel Of Death's tasks. b. As a count noun: a stupid or foolish action, remark, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > stupidity, dullness of intellect > [noun] > stupid deed, thought, etc. sotheada1200 dotage1528 stupidity1594 sottery1598 dote1643 sottise1673 idiocy1822 jobbernowlism1824 noodledom1827 noodleism1829 crassitude1865 1822 S. T. Coleridge Coll. Lett. (1971) V. 196 A chain of strange almost Idiocies, Neglects, Provocations, and Promise-breach. 1895 Western Mail 7 Aug. 7/5 Only each other will listen to the puerile idiocies they pour forth. 1921 G. B. Shaw Back to Methuselah Pref. p. ix I habitually derided Neo-Darwinism as a ghastly idiocy. 1968 Punch 11 Dec. 858/1 The idiocies of British holiday habits, which tend to waver between ‘slurping up the kilometres’ and getting away from it all amid insanitary souks. 2008 Augusta (Georgia) Chron. (Nexis) 22 Feb. a8 Various idiocies have poured from their lips. c. Used humorously as a title. ΚΠ 1826 W. Scott Woodstock III. ix. 246 So please your idiocy, thou art an ass. 2006 Mediaweek (Nexis) 2 Oct. At her trial, Marie Antoinette showed courage, though many historians believe that addressing the judge as ‘Your Idiocy’ may have been a fatal error. †2. Probably: ignorance. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > [noun] unwisdomc825 nutelnessa1200 ignorance?c1225 uncunningc1290 uncunnessa1300 unwittingnessa1300 unknowledging1357 lewdness1362 unsciencec1374 mislearninga1382 simplenessa1382 unknowinga1382 ignorancec1384 unwittingc1384 simplessec1391 rudenessc1400 unweeting14.. lewdhead1401 misknowing?a1425 simplicityc1450 unknowledge1470 discognisancec1475 unknowingness1486 non-knowledge1503 ignorancy1526 simplehead1543 unlearnedness1555 ignoration1563 rusticity1571 ignorantness1574 ignoring1578 inscience1578 ignoramus1583 ingramness1589 lack-learning1590 idiotism1598 ignoramus1598 idiocy1605 nesciencea1625 nescio1637 inerudition1685 unawareness1847 agnosia1879 moronism1922 cluelessness1960 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 312 The suspected vertue of this Tree Shall soone disperse the cloud of Idiocie [Fr. la nue d'ignorance], Which dims your eyes. 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