imbecility
n . 低能,愚钝,愚蠢的言行
低能,愚钝,愚蠢的言行
imbecility n 1 :
retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot 2 :
a stupid mistake [
synonym : {
stupidity }, {
betise }, {
folly },
{
foolishness }, {
imbecility }]
Imbecility \
Im `
be *
cil "
i *
ty \,
n .;
pl . {
Imbecilities }. [
L .
imbecillitas :
cf .
F .
imb ['
e ]
cillit ['
e ].]
The quality of being imbecile ;
weakness ;
feebleness ,
esp .
of mind .
[
1913 Webster ]
Cruelty . . .
argues not only a depravedness of nature ,
but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind .
--
Sir W .
Temple .
[
1913 Webster ]
Note :
This term is used specifically to denote natural weakness of the mental faculties ,
affecting one '
s power to act reasonably or intelligently .
Syn :
Debility ;
infirmity ;
weakness ;
feebleness ;
impotence .
See {
Debility }.
[
1913 Webster ]
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "
imbecility ":
amentia ,
arrested development ,
asininity ,
backwardness ,
battiness ,
blithering idiocy ,
brainlessness ,
buffoonery ,
clownishness ,
crackpottedness ,
crankiness ,
craziness ,
cretinism ,
daffiness ,
desipience ,
disability ,
disablement ,
disqualification ,
eccentricity ,
fatuity ,
fatuousness ,
folly ,
foolery ,
foolheadedness ,
foolishness ,
frivolity ,
frivolousness ,
giddiness ,
goofiness ,
half -
wittedness ,
idiocy ,
idiotism ,
inability ,
inadequacy ,
inanity ,
incapability ,
incapacitation ,
incapacity ,
incompetence ,
incompetency ,
inefficiency ,
ineptitude ,
infancy ,
infantilism ,
inferiority ,
insanity ,
insufficiency ,
legal incapacity ,
lunacy ,
madness ,
mental defectiveness ,
mental deficiency ,
mental handicap ,
mental retardation ,
mindlessness ,
minority ,
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 ,
unfitness ,
wackiness ,
wardship ,
weirdness ,
witlessness ,
zaniness ,
zanyism IMBECILITY ,
med .
jur .
A weakness of the mind ,
caused by the absence or obliteration of natural or acquired ideas ;
or it is described to be an abnormal deficiency either in those faculties which acquaint us with the qualities and ordinary relations of things ,
or in those which furnish us with the moral motives that regulate our relations and conduct towards our fellow men .
It is frequently attended with excessive activity .
of one or more of the animal propensities .
2 .
Imbecility differs from idiocy in this ,
that the subjects of the former possess some intellectual capacity ,
though inferior in degree to that possessed by the great mass of mankind ;
while those of the latter are utterly destitute of reason .
Imbecility differs also from stupidity . (
q .
v .)
The former consists in a defect of the mind ,
which renders it unable to examine the data presented to it by the senses ,
and therefrom to deduce the correct judgment ;
that is ,
a defect of intensity ,
or reflective power .
The latter is occasioned by a want of intensity ,
or perceptive power .
3 .
There are various degrees of this disease .
It has been attempted to classify the degrees of imbecility ,
but the careful observer of nature will perhaps be soon satisfied that the shades of difference between one species and another ,
are almost imperceptible .
Ray ,
Med .
Jur .
ch .
3 ;
2 Beck ,
Med .
Jur .
550 ,
542 ;
1 Hagg .
Ecc .
R .
384 ;
2 Philm .
R .
449 ;
1 Litt .
R .
252 ,
5 John .
Ch .
R .
161 ;
1 Litt .
R .
101 ;
Des Maladies mentales ,
considerees dans leurs rapports avec la legislation civille et criminelle ,
8 ;
Georget ,
Discussion medico -
legale sur la folie ,
140 .
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