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AMENTIA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does amentia mean?
• AMENTIA (noun)
The noun AMENTIA has 1 sense:
1. extreme mental retardation
Familiarity information: AMENTIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Extreme mental retardation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
amentia; idiocy
Hypernyms ("amentia" is a kind of...):
backwardness; mental retardation; retardation; slowness; subnormality (lack of normal development of intellectual capacities)
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