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idiotism¹

noun idiotisms

  1. countable, historical, uncountable Very severe mental retardation. He did not perceive that regal power, in a few generations, introduces idiotism into the noble stem […]
  2. countable, uncountable A foolish utterance. […] that clear soprano, in nursery, rings out a shower of innocent idiotisms over the half-stripped baby, and suspends the bawl upon its lips.

idiotism²

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From Latin idiotismus.

noun idiotisms

  1. Idiom.
  2. An overly literal translation of an idiom.

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@misc{idiotism_2026,
  title = {idiotism},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/idiotism},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}