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Imbecility vs Gawky - What's the difference?

imbecility | gawky |

As a noun imbecility

is the quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.

As an adjective gawky is

awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement.

imbecility

English

Noun

  • The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.
  • Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.
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    • , year= 1895 , year_published= , author= , by= (Max Simon Nordau) , title= Degeneration , url= http://books.google.com/books?id=LOWr5TsEaPUC&pg=PA270 , original= , chapter= , section= , isbn= , edition= , publisher= D. Appleton and Company , location= New York , editor= , volume= , page= 270 , passage= The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility . }}

    gawky

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • awkward, ungainly; lacking grace or dexterity in movement

    • Synonyms

    * gauche, ungraceful Appalachian English