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Synonyms for imbecility
noun foolishness

madness
rubbish
nonsense
absurdity
tommyrot
twaddle
craziness
lunacy
bunk
indiscretion

stupidity
poppycock
inanity
claptrap
weakness
insensibility
imprudence
insanity
idiocy
tomfoolery

silliness
irrationality
folly
impracticality
senselessness
mistake
ludicrousness
preposterousness
unreasonableness
irresponsibility

absurdness
unwiseness
foolery
carrying-on
dumb trick
fool trick
horse feathers
witlessness
zaniness

Antonyms for imbecility

wisdom
sense

truth
understanding

intelligence
judgment

Concept Thesaurus for word imbecility
Synonyms – noun

want of intelligence
foolishness
poverty of intellect
stupidity
meanest capacity
bias
babyhood
fatuity
folly
ineptitude
conceit
extravagance (absurdity)
have no brains
radoter
play the monkey
talk nonsense

want of intellect [more]
imbecility
clouded perception
stolidity
shortsightedness
infatuation (insanity)
dotage
idiocy
frivolity
nugacity
sophistry
rashness
have no sense [more]
dote
take leave of one’s senses

shadowness
incapacity
poor head
hebetude
incompetence (unskillfulness)
simplicity
anility
idiotism
irrationality
inconsistency
giddiness (inattention)
act of folly
trifle
ramble (madness)
not see an inch beyond one’s nose

silliness
vacancy of mind
apartments to let
dull understanding
one’s weak side
puerility
second childishness
driveling.
trifling
lip wisdom
eccentricity
be imbecile
drivel
play the fool
stultify oneself

Synonyms – adjectives

[Applied to persons] unintelligent
witless
having no head
addle headed
muddy headed
chuckle headed
beef headed
feeble-minded
rattle-brained
short witted
clod-pated
thick-skulled
weak
spoony
heavy
stolid
prosaic
infantile
anile
imbecile
vacant
unteachable
ungifted
unphilosphical
silly
nonsensical

unintellectual
reasoningless
not bright
puzzle headed
pig headed
mutton headed
fat witted
dull minded
rattle headed
dull witted
addle-pated
weak in the upper story.
wanting
dull
insulse
doltish
hebetudinous.
babyish
simple (credulous)
driveling
sottish
Boeotian
undiscerning
apish
senseless
inept

unreasoning
brainless
inapprehensible.
blunder headed
beetle headed
maggoty headed
fat-headed.
shallow minded
half witted
blund-witted
dim-sighted
shallow
soft
dull as a beetle
obtuse
asinine
childish
babish
fatuous
blatant
bewildered
Boeotic
unenlightened
simious.
irrational
maudlin.

mindless
halfbaked
weak headed
muddle headed
buffle headed
grossheaded
weak-minded
lack-brained
lean witted
shallow-pated
short-sighted
borne
sappy
stupid
blunt
inapt
infantine
puerile
idiotic
babbling
blockish
bovine
unwise
foolish
insensate

Synonyms – phrases
Davus sum non [Edipus]; “a fool’s bolt is soon shot” [Henry V.] clitellae bovi sunt impositae [Cicero]; “fools rush in where angels fear to tread” [Pope]; il n’a ni bouche ni eperon; “the bookful blockhead, ignorantly read” [Pope];
Antonyms

intelligence, wisdom

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