mental defectiveness


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Noun1.mental defectiveness - retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
abnormality
backwardness, mental retardation, subnormality, slowness, retardation - lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
feeblemindedness - severe mental deficiency
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