imbecility

Noun

Meaning

The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

folly stupidity foolishness betise simplicity dementia madness nonsense insanity absurdity incapacity impotence infirmity irresponsibility silliness
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Antonyms

prudence capacity intelligence balance depth discrimination
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Hypernyms

error mistake fault retardation slowness backwardness

Derivatives

imbecilities

Examples

Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of time and frequency of experiment. Samuel Johnson

The Catholic Church is an institution I am bound to hold divine - but for unbelievers a proof of its divinity might be found in the fact that no merely human institution conducted with such knavish imbecility would have lasted a fortnight. Hilaire Belloc

Whenever government assumes to deliver us from the trouble of thinking for ourselves, the only consequences it produces are those of torpor and imbecility. William Godwin

If x is the population of the United States and y is the degree of imbecility of the average American, then democracy is the theory that x × y is less than y. H. L. Mencken

An institute run with such knavish imbecility that if it were not the work of God it would not last a fortnight. Hilaire Belloc

A certain moral imbecility marks all ethnocentric movements. I. F. Stone

Close letter words and terms

imbecilification imbecilism imbecilitate imbed imbeddable imbedded