Imprudence vs Idiocy - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) The quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness.
(countable) An imprudent act.
* {{quote-book, year=1753, author=Theophilus Cibber, title=The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753), chapter=, edition=
, passage=At about the age of twenty-three, to crown his other imprudences , he married, without improving his reduced circumstances thereby. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1891, author=Francois Coppee, title=Ten Tales, chapter=, edition=
, passage=Yes, for six months he threw all his medicines in the fire, and designedly committed all sorts of imprudences . }}
* {{quote-book, year=1903, author=S.C. Hill, title=Three Frenchmen in Bengal, chapter=, edition=
, passage=This man finally fell a victim to his diplomacies, perhaps also to his imprudences . }}
* {{quote-book
, year=1906 – 1921
, author=
, title=
, volume=1
, chapter=Encounter
, passage=He [Timothy Forsyte] had never committed the imprudence of marrying or encumbering himself in any way with children.}}
(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.
Imprudence is a related term of idiocy.
As nouns the difference between imprudence and idiocy
is that imprudence is (uncountable) the quality or state of being imprudent; want of prudence, caution, discretion or circumspection; indiscretion; inconsideration; rashness; heedlessness while idiocy is (psychology) the state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation.imprudence
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(idiocies)- The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy , put a new policy in place.