Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

idiotism

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: id-i-o-tism
IPA

11

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

4

Syllables

6

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Very severe mental retardation.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

A foolish utterance.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

noun

An overly literal translation of an idiom.

Example Sentences

"He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem […]"
"Idiotism had long been accepted as hopeless: ‘Absolute idiocy admits of no cure,’ noted the nineteenth-century psychiatrist George Man Burrows (1771–1846)."
"[…] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips."

Etymology

Etymology tree English idiot Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English idiotism From idiot + -ism.

Usage

Inflected Forms

idiotisms (plural)

Questions

What does idiotism mean?: Very severe mental retardation.
Where does idiotism come from?: Etymology tree English idiot Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Indo-European *-mos Proto-Indo-European *-mós Ancient Greek -μός (-mós) Ancient Greek -ισμός (-ismós)der. English -ism English idiotism From idiot + -ism.

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