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The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind. / Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.

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imbecility

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Source Word

imbecility

Noun

countable uncountable

The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind. / Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.

Japanese Meaning

愚かさや鈍さ、特に精神的な弱さを示す状態 / 愚かな行動やばかげた振る舞い

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The imbecility of ignoring safety warnings led to a costly accident.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

安全上の警告を無視する愚かさが高額な事故を招いた。

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The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.

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.

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