Difference between Idiot and Cretin

IDIOT vs CRETIN: NOUN

A person who is considered foolish or stupid.
A person of profound mental retardation having a mental age below three years and generally unable to learn connected speech or guard against common dangers. The term belongs to a classification system no longer in use and is now considered offensive.
A private person.
An unlearned, ignorant, or simple person.
A fool or dupe; one who is fooled.
A professional fool; a jester; a clown.
A human being destitute of the ordinary mental powers; one who is born without understanding or discernment, or who has utterly lost it by disease, so as to have no lucid intervals; one who, by deficiency of the intellectual faculties, is unfit for the social condition, or for taking care of himself in danger.
In old English law, one who has been without understanding or reasoning powers from his birth, as distinguished from a lunatic. “At the present day idiocy is considered as a species of insanity or lunacy.” (Rapalje and Lawrence.)
A person of subnormal intelligence
A fool; a simpleton; -- a term of reproach.
A common term for a person of low general intelligence.
A medical or psychological term meaning a person who lacks the capacity to develop beyond the mental age of a normal four-year-old.
A man in private station, as distinguished from one holding a public office.

A person of subnormal intelligence
A person afflicted with cretinism.
A person considered to be foolish or unintelligent.
One of a numerous class of deformed idiots found in certain valleys of the Alps and elsewhere; one afflicted with cretinism.
One afflicted with cretinism.
A person who fails to develop mentally and physically due to a congenital hypothyroidism.
An idiot.

Idiotic, Dickhead, Nitwit, Twit, Arsehole, Dolt, Stupid, Dumbass, Jackass, Half wit, Changeling, Retard, Cretin, Imbecile, Moron

Doofus, Jackass, Schmuck, Dumbass, Dickhead, Oaf, Twerp, Dimwit, Twit, Half wit, Changeling, Retard, Idiot, Imbecile, Moron

Twat, Idiotic, Dickhead, Nitwit, Twit, Arsehole, Dolt, Stupid, Dumbass, Jackass, Changeling, Retard, Cretin, Imbecile, Moron

Dork, Douche, Doofus, Jackass, Dumbass, Dickhead, Oaf, Twerp, Dimwit, Twit, Changeling, Retard, Idiot, Imbecile, Moron

May be im the worst type of idiot, but can I say you are the best kind of idiot.
The only way you become not an idiot is learning why you were an idiot.
One thing seems to be sure: an idiot today is equal to an idiot back then.
Unfortunately we have an idiot president and a lot of idiot governors, and so cases in this country are surging.
Unfortunately, in this case, the negative implications go way beyond the idiot who decided to be an idiot.
A friend once told me any idiot can be uncomfortable and I am prepared to be that idiot.
One idiot hires Nigerians to play the part of maga deplorables, and this idiot mistakes a Cuban immigrant democrat for another deplorable.
Well obviously you are an idiot for trusting an idiot.
If you make something idiot proof, someone will make a better idiot.
Any idiot who claims otherwise is just a fool, and yes, an idiot.

Cretin-Derham Hall led 7-0 at the half after relying on a rare pass-heavy attack.
Three of Cretin-Derham Hall's touchdowns happened after it started a drive in Roseville territory.
Anyone who thinks that Liverpool should roll over for Chelsea is a cretin at best.
If there was a Cretin crossing sign you would want to see it.
HUSER CRETIN KOHEN WARHEAD JAMMER HALEAMAU JANKAUSKAS Tercer Libro de Lectura.
Flud is a 2012 graduate of Cretin-Derham High School.
Much more than that cretin with the website, he said.
Paul, with Cretin High School situated to the east.
The little cretin gets a pass anyway for.
Bell DS, Cretin S, Marken BS, Landman AB.