idiocy

名词 n.
[ˈɪɾiəsi]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average. countable,dated,derogatory,uncountable
  2. Lack of intelligence or sense; extremely foolish behaviour. uncountable
    — The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy, put a new policy in place.
  3. An idiotic act or utterance. countable
    — “Well, Atticus, I was just sayin‘ to Mr. Cunningham that entailments are bad an’ all that, but you said not to worry, it takes a long time sometimes… that you all’d ride it out together…” I was slowly drying up, wondering what idiocy I had committed.

词形变化

idiocies plural idiotcy alternative,archaic

词源

From French idiotie, from Old French idiot. Displaced earlier idiotacy, idiotry. Equivalent to idiot + -cy. By surface analysis, idio- + -cy.
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