mental defectiveness

1. 1.

   retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence

   Synonymsabnormality

   Broaderretardation

   Narrowerfeeblemindedness

Questions about mental defectiveness

What does mental defectiveness mean?

mental defectiveness means "retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence".

What is another word for mental defectiveness?

Close synonyms include abnormality. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.