imbecility

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind. uncountable
    — 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.
  2. Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc. countable,uncountable
    — The Parnassian theory of art is mere imbecility.

词形变化

imbecilities plural

词汇关系

衍生词
imbecilitate

词源

From Middle English inbecillite, from Middle French imbecilité, imbecillité, and its etymon Classical Latin imbēcillitās. By surface analysis, imbecile + -ity.
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