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imbecilities

imbecilities is the plural of imbecility.

Meaning of imbecility

Noun

imbecility (countable and uncountable, plural imbecilities)

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.
    • The police prosecutor hammered at him and the bench had a go at him, and they commanded from him such a madhouse particularity between the distinctions of looking and seeing that Bradly was reduced to imbecility, and so contradictious were his mutterings that he was openly suspected of trying to...1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 89
  2. Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.
    • The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility.1895, Degeneration, New York: D. Appleton and Company, translation of Entartung by Max Simon Nordau, page 270

Questions about imbecilities

What is imbecilities the plural of?
Imbecilities is the plural of imbecility.

Words near imbecilities in the dictionary

  1. imbecilism
  2. imbecilitate
  3. imbecilitated
  4. imbecilitates
  5. imbecilitating
  6. imbecilities
  7. imbecility
  8. imbed
  9. imbeddable
  10. imbedded
  11. imbedder

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