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  • noun Extreme mental deficiency.
  • noun literally Mindless.

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Examples

  • His developing par - anoia about the audience was, too!

    Robot Adept Anthony, Piers 1988

  • Ei de mê apedôke, pôs anestê Christos, ouketi oun to, Exousian echô theinai kai exousian echô labein, histatai; ho goun diabolos katechei to haima tou Christou anti tês timês tôn anthrôpôn; pollê blasphêmios anoia!

    History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890

  • "The Bayi team have really lost face now," wrote a user named anoia on China's popular microblog Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

    News - chicagotribune.com 2011

  • "The Bayi team have really lost face now," wrote a user named anoia on China's popular microblog Sina Weibo, the Chinese equivalent of Twitter.

    StarTribune.com rss feed 2011

  • * tosautē autous pleonexia pareschēkei kai anoia kateilēphei, hōs mē hepesthai tois hupo tōn palai katadeichtheisin .... alla kata tēn autōn prothesin kai hōs hekastos ebouleto, houtōs heautois kai nomous poiēsai kai toutous paraphulastein kai en diaphorois diaphora plēthē sunagein: [1515] 1

    The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908

  • - hingeless and toothless bivalve; freshwater mussel. anoesia, anoia

    xml's Blinklist.com 2008

  • XI, 1756 sqq.) as "the height of blasphemous folly" (polle blasphemos anoia), and was positively rejected by Gregory of Nazianzus and John of Damascus.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

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  • also anoesia mental deficiency;idiocy

    November 6, 2007

  • /uh NOY uh/ n · Idiocy.

    August 7, 2008