Unwisdom vs Idiocy - What's the difference?
unwisdom | idiocy | Related terms |
Lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity.
* Sumptuary laws are among the exploded fallacies which we have outgrown, and we smile at the unwisdom which could except to regulate private habits and manners by statute -
* 2010 , (Christopher Hitchens), Hitch-22 , Atlantic 2011, p. 151:
(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.
Unwisdom is a related term of idiocy.
As nouns the difference between unwisdom and idiocy
is that unwisdom is lack of wisdom; unwise conduct or action; ignorance, stupidity while idiocy is (psychology) the state or condition of being an idiot; the quality of having an intelligence level far below average; mental retardation.unwisdom
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Noun
- Reporting from Vietnam in 1945, he may have been the first person to assert the extreme unwisdom of trying to restore French colonialism with British troops.
idiocy
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Alternative forms
* idiotcyNoun
(idiocies)- The administrators, growing tired of such idiocy , put a new policy in place.