An idiot

The word idiot is used as an insult to describe someone with low intelligence or poor judgment.
The person may be described idiotic, and to suffer from idiocy.
== History of the word ==
Greek idiotes "layman, person lacking professional skill" (opposed to writer, soldier, skilled workman), literally "private person" (as opposed to one taking part in public affairs), used patronizingly for "ignorant person," from idios "one's own" (see idiom).
As commonly defined, an idiot, dolt, dullard or (archaically) mome is a person perceived to be lacking intelligence, or someone who acts in a self-defeating or significantly counterproductive way.
Along with the similar terms moron, imbecile, and cretin, the word archaically referred to people with intellectual disabilities. These words fell off the euphemism treadmill as people used them as insults instead.
Etymologically opposed to ‘a noble’.
The concept refers to a type of over-particularisation in thought.
== See also ==
* Intelligence
* Ableism
* Anti-ableism
* idiot savant, an old-fashioned term for disabled people who were highly skilled in an area
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