MENTAL DEFECTIVENESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence

Synonyms:

abnormality; mental defectiveness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("mental defectiveness" is a kind of...):

backwardness; mental retardation; retardation; slowness; subnormality (lack of normal development of intellectual capacities)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mental defectiveness"):

feeblemindedness (severe mental deficiency)

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