mental deficiency

Noun

Meaning

mild mental retardation

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

dementia retardation backwardness amentia mental disorder mental retardation moronity feeblemindedness idiotism

Hypernyms

retardation slowness backwardness mental retardation subnormality

Examples

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. It proceeds from not knowing what is going on in other people's minds. Walter Bagehot

The habit of common and continuous speech is a symptom of mental deficiency. Walter Bagehot

After the war collaborationist behaviour was popularly viewed as a result of mental deficiency, leaving the personality of the clearly more intelligent Quisling an "enigma". Source: Internet

His book contained directions on how to use what he called "talk therapy", or Psychotherapy, to prompt an individual to reveal their deepest passions and secrets, and eventually cure them of their mental deficiency. Source: Internet

Reliability appears to be only satisfactory for three categories: mental deficiency, organic brain syndrome (but not its subtypes), and alcoholism. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

mental defective mental defectiveness mental deficiencies mental deficient mental depression mental derangement