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名詞

idiotism (countable かつ uncountable, 複数形 idiotisms)

1. (now chiefly historical) Very severe mental retardation.
   • 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman‎^[1]:

     He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem […]

   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 488:

     Idiotism had long been accepted as hopeless: ‘Absolute idiocy admits of no cure,’ noted the nineteenth-century psychiatrist George Man Burrows (1771–1846).

2. A foolish utterance.
   • 1863, Sheridan Le Fanu, The House by the Churchyard:

     […] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.

語源 2

From Latin idiotismus.

名詞

idiotism (複数形 idiotisms)

1. Idiom.
2. An overly literal translation of an idiom.