Idiocy \Id"i*o*cy\ ([i^]d"[i^]*[-o]*s[y^]), n. [From idiot; cf. Gr. ? uncouthness, lack of education, fr. ?. See {Idiot}, and cf. {Idiotcy}.] The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.
I will undertake to convict a man of idiocy, if he can not see the proof that three angles of a triangle are equal to two right angles. --F. W. Robertson.
"I won't put my name on that kind of idiocy," he says.
The market is the essential solution to the "one best system" fallacy that has yielded, among other disasters, the dumbing down of the school textbook to perfect idiocy.
You would stand for ages crushed on all sides by red-faced prop forwards and hulking second row men, deafened by patriotic bawling and thunderous denunciations of selectorial idiocy.
"R&Z" is mostly second-rate Rossini hitched to a libretto of nearly unlimited idiocy.