They induce uncertainty in muscle power, confusion in mind power, and imbecility in soul power.
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Imbecility
//ˌɪmbəˈsɪləti//
Synonyms for "imbecility" (92 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
20 translations across 11 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- малоумие noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
- слабоумие noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
Catalan
1 entries- imbecil·litat noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
French
1 entries- imbécilité noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
Greek
2 entries- βλακεία noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
- ηλιθιότητα noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
Italian
1 entries- imbecillità noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
Latin
1 entries- imbecillitas noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
Manx
4 entries- anlheil noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
- anlheiltys noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
- jei-hushtaght noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
- meecheeall noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
Occitan
1 entries- imbecillitat noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- شاشقینلق noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
Russian
3 entries- дебили́зм noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
- имбеци́льность noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
- слабоу́мие noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
Spanish
1 entries- imbecilidad noun (quality of imbecile, stupid behaviour)
Sample sentences
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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 shield that wretched tramp, whom Bradly would have gladly seen sunk in the bottomless pit reserved for snoopers.
Source: wiktionary
He [Ben Shapiro] wielded a particularly pointed arrow at Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News host, for engaging in what he said was “an act of moral imbecility,” by recently airing a softball interview with Nick Fuentes, an avowed antisemite.
Source: wiktionary
The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility.
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