Idiocy vs Lunacy - What's the difference?
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(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.
(of a person or group of people) The state of being mad, insanity
# a cyclical mental disease, apparently linked to the lunar phases
# insanity implying legal irresponsibility.
Something deeply misguided.
As nouns the difference between idiocy and lunacy
is that idiocy is the state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation while lunacy is the state of being mad, insanity.idiocy
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Alternative forms
* idiotcyNoun
(idiocies)- The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy , put a new policy in place.
