MENTAL DEFECTIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mental defectiveness mean? 

• MENTAL DEFECTIVENESS (noun)
  The noun MENTAL DEFECTIVENESS has 1 sense:

1. retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence

  Familiarity information: MENTAL DEFECTIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MENTAL DEFECTIVENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

abnormality; mental defectiveness

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)