What does the dictionary say: The Oxford English Dictionary
Currently, when defining the word idiot, The Oxford English Dictionary lists that an idiot is:
- most commonly “a person without learning; an ignorant, uneducated; a simple or ordinary person”
- less commonly “a person without professional training or skill”
- in psychiatry “A person so profoundly disabled in mental function or intellect as to be incapable of ordinary acts of reasoning or rational conduct”.
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