moronismn.

1913 N.Y. Med. Jrnl. 20 Sept. 564/2 The great influx of uneducated aliens renders it necessary in justice to ourselves and to them, that we become proficient in separating moronism (higher feeblemindedness) from gross ignorance.

1946 R. M. Lindner Stone Walls & Men vii. 117 In the feeble-minded the body continues to grow although the intellect is arrested at the specific points described by the categories moronism, imbecility, idiocy.

1948 Psychol. Abstr. 22 211/1 Among the 200 autopsies microcephaly was found in 19 cases..familial moronism and high grade imbecility in 20.

1985 Current Digest Soviet Press 7 Aug. 13 Children who have been diagnosed as having ‘oligophrenia at the level of moronism’—i.e., the category of children who can be taught some things.

1922 New Republic 2 Aug. 277/1 It was found that moronism does not disqualify a man absolutely for practical success.

1931 Sci. Monthly 32 158/2 Not much matters with those of low intelligence;..thus, in society afflicted with extensive moronism, Christianity and church membership are synonymous.

1959 ‘F. Newton’ Jazz Scene i. 22 It is possible that the increasing spread of middle-class or lower-middle-class standards among the working class may really create cultural moronism.

1980 Washington Post 26 Sept. f10/5 M. Johnson Jr. of the First Baptist Church of Cary, N.C., called Smith's statement ‘ignorance and flamboyant shallow-brained moronism’.

1997 Los Angeles Times 24 Aug. (Bk. Review section) 10 Willful obfuscation in a writer is completely indefensible... It is the ugly matching bookend of that other moronism, the greeting card verse.