Idiocy vs Fallacy - What's the difference?
idiocy | fallacy |
(psychology) The state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation.
An act lacking intelligence or sense; an instance of senselessness; extremely foolish behaviour.
Deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.
(logic) An argument, or apparent argument, which professes to be decisive of the matter at issue, while in reality it is not. A specious argument.
As nouns the difference between idiocy and fallacy
is that idiocy is (psychology) the state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation while fallacy is deceptive or false appearance; deceitfulness; that which misleads the eye or the mind; deception.idiocy
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* idiotcyNoun
(idiocies)- The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy , put a new policy in place.