mattoid
The English word “mattoid” has 2 meanings listed here.
adjective
noun
- A person who displays such behaviour; a person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or degeneracy.
Etymology
From Italian matto (“insane”) + -oid (“likeness or resemblance”), from Ancient Greek εἶδος (eîdos, “form”) more First appeared in English in 1891 through a translation of the nineteenth-century Italian criminologist Cesare Lombroso's work, Man of Genius. H G Wells used it in several of his books, most notably in Mankind in the Making of 1903, in which he derides the theories of Lombroso and the…
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