Midwit
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 A person of middling intellect; someone who is neither particularly dull nor particularly smart, especially if they act as though they are smarter than they are. Internet, derogatory, mildly, neologism
"At no point in this process does the midwit have to review information for himself or consider ideas in abstract. […] How then should we not be midwits? Painting with broad strokes: avoid media. Cultivate taste. Grow and train your sense of aesthetics. Recognize beauty. Practice virtue. Pray."
Example
More examples"At no point in this process does the midwit have to review information for himself or consider ideas in abstract. […] How then should we not be midwits? Painting with broad strokes: avoid media. Cultivate taste. Grow and train your sense of aesthetics. Recognize beauty. Practice virtue. Pray."
Etymology
From mid- + wit; likely coined in line with nitwit, halfwit, etc.
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