Idiocy vs Stupidness - What's the difference?
idiocy | stupidness |
(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.
(uncountable, rare) The quality or state of being stupid.
(countable, rare) The result or product of being stupid.
As nouns the difference between idiocy and stupidness
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 stupidness is (uncountable|rare) the quality or state of being stupid.idiocy
English
Alternative forms
* idiotcyNoun
(idiocies)- The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy , put a new policy in place.