idiocrasy

[id-ee-ok-ruh-see]

noun

plural

idiocrasies 

1. idiosyncrasy.

Other Word Forms

• idiocratic adjective
• idiocratical adjective
• idiocratically adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of idiocrasy¹

1675–85; < Greek idiokrāsía, equivalent to idio- idio- + -krāsia, equivalent to krâs ( is ) mixture ( crasis ) + -ia -y ³; idiosyncrasy

Example Sentences

“It was colossal what they did, and it was idiocrasy.”

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Idiocrasy, id-i-ok′ra-si, n. same as Idiosyncrasy.—adj.

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Sign language can undoubtedly be and is employed to express highly metaphysical ideas, but to do that in a symbolic system requires a development of the mode of expression consequent upon a similar development of the mental idiocrasy of the gesturers far beyond any yet found among historic tribes north of Mexico.

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True, the full man wisely gathers, culls, absorbs; but if, engaged disproportionately in that, he slights or overlays the precious idiocrasy and special nativity and intention that he is, the man's self, the main thing, is a failure, however wide his general cultivation.

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The best culture will always be that of the manly and courageous instincts, and loving perceptions, and of self-respect—aiming to form, over this continent, an idiocrasy of universalism, which, true child of America, will bring joy to its mother, returning to her in her own spirit, recruiting myriads of offspring, able, natural, perceptive, tolerant, devout believers in her, America, and with some definite instinct why and for what she has arisen, most vast, most formidable of historic births, and is, now and here, with wonderful step, journeying through Time.

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Related Words

• foible 
• idiosyncrasy 
• peculiarity 
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