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MENTAL DEFECTIVENESS
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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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