IMBECILE

Imbecile

Imbecile was a medical category of people with moderate to severe intellectual disability, as well as a type of criminal. The term arises from the Latin word imbecillus, meaning weak, or weak-minded. It included people with an IQ of 21–50, between "moron" and "idiot" .

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imbecile

Noun

  1. A person with limited who can perform and think only like a young child, in medical circles meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal five to seven-year-old child.
  2. A fool, an idiot.

Adjective

  1. Destitute of strength, whether of body or mind; feeble; impotent; especially, mentally weak.
    hospitals for the imbecile and insane


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