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AMENTIA

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

• AMENTIA (noun)

Sense 1

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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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