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n. Very severe mental retardation.

n. An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language.

n. Lack of knowledge or mental capacity; idiocy; foolishness.

n. An idiom; a peculiarity of phrase; a current deviation or departure from the strict syntactical rules or usages of a language.

n. A personal peculiarity of expression.

n. Idiocy; the state of being an idiot.

"What’s really scary for me is that Giertych is a professor of biology (BA and MA at Oxford, PhD at University of Toronto), and an active member of Institute of Dendrology of the Polish Academy of Sciences, who only recently stopped teaching (forest genetics and population genetics )… Who knows what kind of idiotism he promoted in the classroom, under the “scientific banner”."

idiom    idiocy    foolishness   

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