Need another word that means the same as “idiocy”? Find 32 synonyms for “idiocy” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Idiocy” are: amentia, stupidity, folly, foolishness, foolhardiness, madness, insanity, lunacy, silliness, thoughtlessness, senselessness, lack of sense, indiscretion, irresponsibility, injudiciousness, imprudence, rashness, recklessness, ineptitude, inanity, irrationality, illogicality, absurdity, nonsense, ridiculousness, fatuousness, fatuity, asininity, pointlessness, meaninglessness, futility, fruitlessness
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “idiocy” as a noun can have the following definitions:
absurdity | A message whose content is at variance with reason. Duncan laughed at the absurdity of the situation. |
amentia | Severe congenital mental disability. |
asininity | The quality of being asinine; stupidity combined with stubbornness. |
fatuity | A ludicrous folly. |
fatuousness | A ludicrous folly. |
folly | Foolish or senseless behavior. Trying to drive through a blizzard is the height of folly. |
foolhardiness | The trait of giving little thought to danger. |
foolishness | A stupid mistake. Adjusting to an insane society is total foolishness. |
fruitlessness | A lack of creative imagination. |
futility | Pointlessness or uselessness. The horror and futility of war. |
illogicality | Invalid or incorrect reasoning. |
imprudence | A lack of caution in practical affairs. |
inanity | A nonsensical remark or action. He commented on the breathtaking inanity of the board s decision. |
indiscretion | Behaviour or speech that is indiscreet or displays a lack of good judgement. Sexual indiscretions. |
ineptitude | Lack of skill or ability. The officials displayed remarkable ineptitude. |
injudiciousness | The trait of being injudicious. |
insanity | Extreme foolishness or irrationality. He suffered from bouts of insanity. |
irrationality | The state of being irrational; lacking powers of understanding. The irrationality of square roots. |
irresponsibility | A form of untrustworthiness; the trait of lacking a sense of responsibility and not feeling accountable for your actions. The economic ills are a consequence of greed and irresponsibility. |
lack of sense | The state of needing something that is absent or unavailable. |
lunacy | Extreme folly or eccentricity. It has been suggested that originality demands a degree of lunacy. |
madness | An acute viral disease of the nervous system of warm-blooded animals (usually transmitted by the bite of a rabid animal); rabies is fatal if the virus reaches the brain. The new laws are a madness. |
meaninglessness | A message that seems to convey no meaning. He resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him. |
nonsense | A message that seems to convey no meaning. She s a strong woman who stands no nonsense. |
pointlessness | Total lack of meaning or ideas. |
rashness | Any red eruption of the skin. |
recklessness | Lack of regard for the danger or consequences of one’s actions; rashness. To fire a loaded shotgun was an act of utmost recklessness. |
ridiculousness | A message whose content is at variance with reason. I recognize the sheer ridiculousness of being afraid of something the size of my thumbnail. |
senselessness | Total lack of meaning or ideas. |
silliness | A ludicrous folly. Children will love the sheer silliness of the enterprise. |
stupidity | A poor ability to understand or to profit from experience. A comedy of infantile stupidity. |
thoughtlessness | The quality of failing to be considerate of others. |
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