'mental deficiency' definitions:
Definition of 'mental deficiency'
(from WordNet)
noun
Mild mental retardation [syn: moronity, mental deficiency]
Synonyms of 'mental deficiency'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aberration,
- abnormality,
- alienation,
- amentia,
- arrested development,
- backwardness,
- blithering idiocy,
- brain damage,
- brainsickness,
- clouded mind,
- craziness,
- cretinism,
- daftness,
- dementedness,
- dementia,
- derangement,
- disorientation,
- distraction,
- folie,
- furor,
- half-wittedness,
- idiocy,
- idiotism,
- imbecility,
- infantilism,
- insaneness,
- insanity,
- irrationality,
- loss of mind,
- loss of reason,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- mania,
- mental defectiveness,
- mental derangement,
- mental disease,
- mental disorder,
- mental disturbance,
- mental handicap,
- mental illness,
- mental instability,
- mental retardation,
- mental sickness,
- mind overthrown,
- mindsickness,
- mongolianism,
- mongolism,
- mongoloid idiocy,
- moronism,
- moronity,
- oddness,
- pixilation,
- possession,
- profound idiocy,
- queerness,
- rabidness,
- reasonlessness,
- retardation,
- retardment,
- senselessness,
- shattered mind,
- sick mind,
- sickness,
- simple-wittedness,
- simplemindedness,
- simpleness,
- simplicity,
- strangeness,
- subnormality,
- unbalance,
- unbalanced mind,
- unsaneness,
- unsound mind,
- unsoundness,
- unsoundness of mind,
- witlessness