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noun

Idiotism n.

An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language. "Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented."

Lack of knowledge or mental capacity; idiocy; foolishness. "Worse than mere ignorance or idiotism." "The running that adventure is the greatist idiotism."

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Etymology of 'Idiotism'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Idiotism" Quotes from Famous Books

... to destroy, or to violate, what angels could not restore, create or consecrate; and that the right, which every man unquestionably possesses, to be an ass, is extended only, in public, to those who are innocent in idiotism, not to the more malicious clowns, who thrust their degraded motley conspicuously forth amidst the fair colors of earth, and mix their incoherent cries with the melodies of eternity, break with their inane laugh upon the silence which Creation keeps where ...

— The Poetry of Architecture • John Ruskin