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What does idiocy mean?

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Noun
  1. (psychology) The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation.
  2. An act lacking intelligence or sense; an instance of senselessness; extremely foolish behaviour.
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To colonists, idiocy was a pitiable and vulnerable condition, one more manifestation of God's diverse creations.
Be prepared for dizzying diatribes, the full range of human capability and frailty, idiocy and intelligence.
Apparently it's better to be in favour of marriage than to be against outrageous idiocy.
I don't get the constant double standards and idiocy of this aesthetically obsessed society we live in.
And, in the face of such unfeeling, unthinking idiocy, how can old Britons remain hopeful?
I think it was Mark Twain who said nobody ever went broke overestimating the idiocy of the American television punditocracy.

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