What's the difference between amentia and idiocy?

Amentia


Definition:

  • (n.) Imbecility; total want of understanding.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Two variants of nephrogenic amentia are distinguished and described (hyperkinetic and hypokinetic) which differ by their intensity of psychotic symptoms, rate of development and the severity of the outcome.
  • (2) The authors conducted a comparative analysis of multiple EEG records in 65 patients with amentia and 35 patients with remittent (periodical) catatonia.
  • (3) The neurophysiological disorders in amentia and catatonia besides some common traits also demonstrated certain differences.
  • (4) Both of the brothers suffered from amentia and epilepsy and were the product of a consanguineous marriage.
  • (5) In another patient, investigated with Amipaque, a psychotic reaction with amentia and paranoid symptoms developed, which disappeared completely after 4 days.

Idiocy


Definition:

  • (n.) The condition or quality of being an idiot; absence, or marked deficiency, of sense and intelligence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) So many young female tennis players look like dolls, the confusion of woman with (sex) doll is almost natural for the broadcaster swimming in the miasma of his own idiocy.
  • (2) The variations of cerebrospinal fluid-free amino acids observed in coma have been compared with those reported by other authors in patients affected by epilepsy, multiple sclerosis, infantile amaurotic idiocy (GM2-gangliosidosis) and phenylketonuria.
  • (3) Scalise even got castigated for such idiocy by no less than Erick Erickson , whose words and deeds usually sound like he’s auditioning for a role in a WWII movie as the piggy Bavarian Gauleiter pinching at dirndls in between faking a WWI injury to keep from getting sent to the front.
  • (4) Glycolipids were isolated from the brain of a patient with a myoclonic variant of late infantile amaurotic idiocy.
  • (5) Lymphocytes of the peripheral blood of 31 patients with juvenile amaurotic idiocy (juvenile form of ceroid lipofuscinosis) were examined with the electron microscope.
  • (6) ( justask ) Reduce the traffic in cities: driving into the city is idiocy, it really isn’t a necessity for most people.
  • (7) To outer appearances he is no different from a lunatic, but the mad saint comes to be revered because his idiocy is popularly believed to arise from a different cause than ordinary madness.
  • (8) In juvenile amaurotic idiocy, pleiomorphic cytosomes with prevalent curvilinear profiles can be found in the skin appendages; they are smaller, less abundant and a more careful search is necessary to discover them.
  • (9) Croatia have won 4-0 due in no small part to the idiocy of Alexandre Song, who was sent off in the first off for a preposterous show of petulance.
  • (10) They have seen indulgent laughter become raised eyebrows over Sarah Ferguson's idiocies.
  • (11) Diagnoses of their illnesses included infantile Gaucher disease; Krabbe disease; Niemann-Pick disease, type A; glycogen storage disease, type 3; Fabry disease, Jansky-Bielschowsky and Spielmeyer-Vogt types of amaurotic idiocy, GM1 gangliosidosis, type 1; Hurler disease; and Sanfilippo disease, types A and B.
  • (12) The likelihood of transition of one type inclusion body into another, the specificity of the curvilinear body and, to our mind, the rigid classification of the amaurotic idiocy into a curvilinear and a fingerprint type, are discussed.
  • (13) Those who survived such idiocy to make it in the goon squad then had to work to a mission statement that reads like something out of a Philip K Dick sci-fi dystopia—except that Philip K Dick never gave such offence to the English language as this: We consider the border not to be a purely physical barrier separating nation states, but a complex continuum stretching offshore and onshore, including the overseas, maritime, physical border and domestic dimensions of the border.
  • (14) Donald Trump’s announcement that the US will withdraw from the Paris agreement was always going to be an exercise in idiocy.
  • (15) Beard retweeted it to her 47,000 followers to out her abuser, but said she had now taken to writing job recommendations for Rawlings so he didn't suffer in the long term for "one moment of idiocy".
  • (16) A lmost nothing good came out of the 1960s – it was a miserable decade of rampant idiocy, sexually transmitted disease and rather disappointing grade marijuana.
  • (17) Harvey's idiocy referral probably reflects his allegiance to his own clinical observations in the face of opposing social norms and family advantage.
  • (18) There's the enmity between husband and wife flung together in a loveless marriage expressed in a series of caustic asides to the audience, and the idiocy of Lord Are, who bears all the hallmarks of the fops Restoration audiences loved to laugh at.
  • (19) The brain and liver from a 7-year-old Japanese girl with juvenile amaurotic idiocy were examined neuropathologically and biochemically.
  • (20) Many of these are people with posh names, liberal-baiting sayers of the unsayable – the “unsayable” generally just being routine racism, sexism and idiocy.

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