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idiot savant(encyclopedia)
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Autistic savant(health)
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idiot(dictionary)
idiot-proof(dictionary)
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anxiety (iou) and idiot-savant (medicine)


anxiety (iou)



anxiety noun. E16.
[French anxiete or Latin anxietas, formed as ANXIOUS: see -TY1.]
The quality or state of being anxious; uneasiness, concern; a cause of this. E16.
Nature Finance has been a constant anxiety.
Medicine. A condition of distress accompanied by precordial tightness or discomfort. M17-M19.
Earnest or solicitous desire for a thing, to do something. M18.
Psychiatry. A morbid state of excessive or unrealistic uneasiness or dread. L19.
Freq. attrib., as anxiety complex, anxiety neurosis, anxiety state.

idiot-savant (medicine)


idiot-savant


A person of low General intelligence who possesses an unusual faculty in performing certain mental tasks of which most normal persons are incapable.

Synonym: idiot-prodigy.

Origin: Fr.