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BACKWARDNESS

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• BACKWARDNESS (noun)
The noun BACKWARDNESS has 1 sense:

1. lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

Familiarity information: BACKWARDNESS used as a noun is very rare.

• BACKWARDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

backwardness; mental retardation; subnormality; slowness; retardation

Hypernyms ("backwardness" is a kind of...):

stupidity (a poor ability to understand or to profit from experience)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "backwardness"):

abnormality; mental defectiveness (retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence)

mental deficiency; moronity (mild mental retardation)

amentia; idiocy (extreme mental retardation)

imbecility (retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot)

"If you can't take the heat, get out of the kitchen."
(English proverb)
"Tongue may muddle up and say the truth."
(Azerbaijani proverb)
"Avoid the company of a liar. And if you can't avoid him, don't believe him."
(Arabic proverb)
"After a battle, everyone is a general."
(Czech proverb)

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