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MENTAL DEFICIENCY

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

1. mild mental retardation

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

• MENTAL DEFICIENCY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Mild mental retardation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

mental deficiency; moronity

Hypernyms ("mental deficiency" is a kind of...):

backwardness; mental retardation; retardation; slowness; subnormality (lack of normal development of intellectual capacities)

"Hair of the dog that bit you."
(English proverb)
"A starving man will eat with the wolf."
(Native American proverb, tribe unknown)
"Meeting death is better than trying to ignore it."
(Arabic proverb)
"Necessity teaches the naked woman to spin (a yarn)."
(Danish proverb)

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