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FEEBLEMINDEDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does feeblemindedness mean?
• FEEBLEMINDEDNESS (noun)
The noun FEEBLEMINDEDNESS has 1 sense:
1. severe mental deficiency
Familiarity information: FEEBLEMINDEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Severe mental deficiency
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Hypernyms ("feeblemindedness" is a kind of...):
abnormality; mental defectiveness (retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence)
Derivation:
feebleminded (retarded in intellectual development)
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