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cretinism
noun as in idiocy
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Certainly, and you can think yourself happy, until gradually a contented cretinism steals over you, body and mind.
Such children, in their mental hebetude and physical degeneracy, suggest a degree of cretinism.
The Swiss have similar feelings as to those of their families whom cretinism has reduced to idiocy.
Not being aware of this act of cretinism, she went at him on the marriage business with a hopeful spirit.
The peculiar disease called cretinism, as well as goitre, has been attributed to a predominance of certain chemicals in the soil.
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On this page you'll find 17 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to cretinism, such as: insanity, lunacy, madness, asininity, derangement, and fatuity.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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