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Dunce vs Cretin - What's the difference?

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Dunce is a related term of cretin.


As nouns the difference between dunce and cretin

is that dunce is one backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt while cretin is idiot, fool, bastard, fuckwit etc.

As an adjective cretin is

stupid; idiotic; foolish etc.

dunce

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One backward in book learning; a child or other person dull or weak in intellect; a dullard; a dolt.

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    cretin

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (pathology) A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
  • (pejorative) An idiot.
  • * 1969 , Irving Wallace, The Seven Minutes
    • When I challenged the symbolism, tried to make the professor consider the book as a piece of realism, he regarded me as if I were an absolute cretin . He got very supercilious and condescending

    Synonyms

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    Derived terms

    * cretinism * cretinize * cretinoid * cretinous

    External links

    * (Cretinism)