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mental deficiency

n.

See mental retardation.

mental deficiency

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(Psychiatry) Psychiatry a less common term for mental retardation

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mental deficiency - mild mental retardation

backwardness, mental retardation, subnormality, slowness, retardation - lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

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