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71simplicity — Synonyms and related words: Attic simplicity, Atticism, Bohemianism, abatement, abridgment, affability, agnosticism, agrarianism, alleviation, amentia, appropriateness, arrested development, artlessness, asceticism, attenuation, austereness,… …
72Mental Pathology — Mental Pathology † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Mental Pathology This subject will be considered under the following headings: I. Localization of Mental Faculties II. Causes of Mental Disturbances III. Varieties of Insanity… …
73idiotic — adjective a) Pertaining to or resembling an idiot; afflicted with idiocy. b) Having the quality of idiocy; very foolish; stupid; nonsensical. See Also: idiocy, idiot, idiotically …
74folly — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Lack of good sense Nouns 1. folly, silliness, foolishness, inanity, idiocy; frivolity, ineptitude; giddiness; inattention; irrationality, eccentricity (see insanity); extravagance, nonsense, absurdity;… …
75imbecility — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. idiocy. See insanity. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Folly] Syn. foolishness, idiocy, silliness, absurdity; see stupidity 1 , 2 . 2. [Feeble mindedness] Syn. moronity, retardation, cretinism; see insanity 1 …
76stupidity — I (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Dullness of mind] Syn. stupor, stupefaction, apathy, slowness, inertia, heaviness, obtuseness, sluggishness, stolidity, feeble mindedness, folly, weakness, silliness, nonsense, absurdity, imbecility, imprudence, lunacy,… …
77id|i|o|cy — «IHD ee uh see», noun, plural cies. 1. the state of being an idiot: »Only because of an earlier naive reliance on tests of intelligence did we get the idea that idiocy and imbecility were deficiencies merely of an intellectual sort (Stone and… …
78TAY-SACHS DISEASE — (Amaurotic Familial Idiocy). Amaurotic Familial Idiocy, known as the Tay Sachs Disease after W. Tay, an English ophthalmologist who discovered it in 1881, and B. Sachs, a U.S. neurologist who followed in 1887, is a hereditary disease,… …
79Idiotcy — Id i*ot*cy, n. [Cf. {Idiocy}.] Idiocy. [R.] [1913 Webster] …
80Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — Infobox University name = Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute motto = Knowledge and Thoroughness established = 1824 type = Private president = Shirley Ann Jackson provost = Robert Palazzo [cite web|url=http://news.rpi.edu/update.do?artcenterkey=2203|… …
