Word Meanings - IMBECILITY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural

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The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of IMBECILITY)

• Alienation
• Insanity
• aberration
• hallucination
• derangement
• imbecility
• Debility
• Weakness
• feebleness
• frailty
• infirmity
• incapacity
• enervation
• lassitude
• languor
• Dotage
• Imbecility
• senility
• fatuity
• dementedness
• Fatuity
• Folly
• idiotcy
• infatuation
• Madness
• nonsense
• misconduct
• imprudence
• silliness
• foolishness
• weakness
• absurdity

Related words: (words related to IMBECILITY)

• DERANGEMENT
  The act of deranging or putting out of order, or the state of being deranged; disarrangement; disorder; confusion; especially, mental disorder; insanity. Syn. -- Disorder; confusion; embarrassment; irregularity; disturbance; insanity;
• INFATUATION
  The act of infatuating; the state of being infatuated; folly; that which infatuates. The infatuations of the sensual and frivolous part of mankind are amazing; but the infatuations of the learned and sophistical are incomparably more so. I. Taylor.
• ENERVATION
  1. The act of weakening, or reducing strength. 2. The state of being weakened; effeminacy. Bacon.
• FRAILTY
  1. The condition quality of being frail, physically, mentally, or morally, frailness; infirmity; weakness of resolution; liableness to be deceived or seduced. God knows our frailty, pities our weakness. Locke. 2. A fault proceeding from weakness;
• IMBECILITY
  The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind. Cruelty . . . argues not only a depravedness of nature, but also a meanness of courage and imbecility of mind. Sir W. Temple. Note: This term is used specifically to denote natural
• ABERRATION
  A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit,
• FEEBLENESS
  The quality or condition of being feeble; debility; infirmity. That shakes for age and feebleness. Shak.
• FATUITY
  Weakness or imbecility of mind; stupidity. Those many forms of popular fatuity. I Taylor.
• NONSENSE
  1. That which is not sense, or has no sense; words, or language, which have no meaning, or which convey no intelligible ideas; absurdity. 2. Trifles; things of no importance. Nonsense verses, lines made by taking any words which occur,
• MISCONDUCT
  Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement. Addison. Syn. -- Misbehavior; misdemeanor; mismanagement; misdeed; delinquency; offense.
• WEAKNESS
  1. The quality or state of being weak; want of strength or firmness; lack of vigor; want of resolution or of moral strength; feebleness. 2. That which is a mark of lack of strength or resolution; a fault; a defect. Many take pleasure in spreading
• INSANITY
  Such a mental condition, as, either from the existence of delusions, or from incapacity to distinguish between right and wrong, with regard to any matter under action, does away with individual responsibility. Syn. - Insanity, Lunacy,
• IMPRUDENCE
  The quality or state of being imprudent; want to caution, circumspection, or a due regard to consequences; indiscretion; inconsideration; reshness; also, an imprudent act; as, he was guilty of an imprudence. His serenity was interrupted, perhaps,
• DOTAGE
  1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature.
• LANGUOR
  1. A state of the body or mind which is caused by exhaustion of strength and characterized by a languid feeling; feebleness; lassitude; laxity. 2. Any enfeebling disease. Sick men with divers languors. Wyclif . 3. Listless indolence; dreaminess.
• DEBILITY
  The state of being weak; weakness; feebleness; languor. The inconveniences of too strong a perspiration, which are debility, faintness, and sometimes sudden death. Arbuthnot. Syn. -- Debility, Infirmity, Imbecility. An infirmity belongs, for the
• ABSURDITY
  1. The quality of being absurd or inconsistent with obvious truth, reason, or sound judgment. "The absurdity of the actual idea of an infinite number." Locke. 2. That which is absurd; an absurd action; a logical contradiction. His travels were
• ALIENATION
  A transfer of title, or a legal conveyance of property to another. 3. A withdrawing or estrangement, as of the affections. The alienation of his heart from the king. Bacon. 4. Mental alienation; derangement of the mental faculties; insanity; as,
• FOOLISHNESS
  1. The quality of being foolish. 2. A foolish practice; an absurdity. The preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness. 1 Cor. i. 18.
• LANGUOROUS
  Producing, or tending to produce, languor; characterized by languor. Whom late I left in languorous constraint. Spenser. To wile the length from languorous hours, and draw The sting from pain. Tennyson.
• ABALIENATION
  The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement.