imbecility

English

Noun

imbecility (countable and uncountable, plural imbecilities)

1. The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.
2. Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.
   • 1895, Degeneration‎^[1], New York: D. Appleton and Company, translation of Entartung by Max Simon Nordau, page 270:

     The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility.

Translations

quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour

• Bulgarian: слабоумие (bg) n (slaboumie), малоумие (bg) n (maloumie)
• Catalan: imbecil·litat (ca) f
• French: imbécilité (fr) f
• Greek: ηλιθιότητα (el) f (ilithiótita), βλακεία (el) f (vlakeía)
• Italian: imbecillità (it) f
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• Latin: imbecillitas
• Manx: meecheeall f, meecheeallid m, ommidjys m, anlheil m, anlheiltys m, jei-hushtaght f
• Occitan: imbecillitat f
• Russian: слабоу́мие (ru) n (slaboúmije), дебили́зм (ru) m (debilízm), имбеци́льность (ru) f (imbecílʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: imbecilidad (es) f