(n.) The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.
Thesaurus Entries
amentia, arrested development, asininity, backwardness, battiness, blithering idiocy, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crackpottedness, crankiness, craziness, cretinism, daffiness, desipience, eccentricity, fatuity, fatuousness, folly, foolery, foolheadedness, foolishness, frivolity, frivolousness, giddiness, goofiness, half-wittedness, idiotism, imbecility, inanity, ineptitude, infantilism, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap, mental retardation, mindlessness, mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, niaiserie, nugacity, nuttiness, profound idiocy, queerness, retardation, retardment, sappiness, screwiness, senselessness, silliness, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, stupidity, subnormality, thoughtlessness, triflingness, triviality, wackiness, weirdness, witlessness, zaniness, zanyism
