imbecility
/ˌɪmbəˈsɪləti/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.67 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The police prosecutor hammered at him and the bench had a go at him, and they commanded from him such a madhouse particularity between the distinctions of looking and seeing that Bradly was reduced to imbecility, and so contradictious were his mutterings that he was openly suspected of trying to shield that wretched tramp, whom Bradly would have gladly seen sunk in the bottomless pit reserved for snoopers."
- "He [Ben Shapiro] wielded a particularly pointed arrow at Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, for engaging in what he said was “an act of moral imbecility,” by recently airing a softball interview with Nick Fuentes, an avowed antisemite."
- "The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility."
- "The procedure of musical comedy is not reducible to a coherent formula, so that its imbecilities may be annotated by super imbecilities."
Etymology
From Middle English inbecillite, from Middle French imbecilité, imbecillité, and its etymon Classical Latin imbēcillitās. By surface analysis, imbecile + -ity.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: inbecillite, imbecilité,imbecillité, imbēcillitās