'arrested development' definitions:
Definition of 'arrested development'
From: WordNet
noun
An abnormal state in which development has stopped prematurely [syn: arrested development, fixation, infantile fixation, regression]
Synonyms of 'arrested development'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- amentia,
- backwardness,
- blithering idiocy,
- cretinism,
- father fixation,
- fixation,
- Freudian fixation,
- half-wittedness,
- idiocy,
- idiotism,
- imbecility,
- infantile fixation,
- infantilism,
- insanity,
- libido fixation,
- mental defectiveness,
- mental deficiency,
- mental handicap,
- mental retardation,
- mongolianism,
- mongolism,
- mongoloid idiocy,
- moronism,
- moronity,
- mother fixation,
- parent fixation,
- pregenital fixation,
- profound idiocy,
- regression,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- retreat to immaturity,
- simple-wittedness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- subnormality