{"id":138484,"date":"2021-12-15T07:22:07","date_gmt":"2021-12-15T07:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=138484"},"modified":"2023-09-22T07:10:41","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T07:10:41","slug":"imbecility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/imbecility\/","title":{"rendered":"Imbecility"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A moderate to severe degree of intellectual sub-normality that falls short of idiocy. The term is now obsolete, but roughly corresponds to an intelligence quotient of between 20 and 50. 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