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Mental deficiency   /mˈɛntəl dɪfˈɪʃənsi/   Listen
Mental deficiency

noun
1.
Mild mental retardation.  Synonym: moronity.





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... quite a good deal of First Principles, but his Biology took the wind out of my sails, and his Psychology left me butting around in the doldrums for many a day. I honestly could not understand what he was driving at. I put it down to mental deficiency on my part, but since then I have decided that it was for want of preparation. I had no proper basis. Only Spencer and myself know how hard I hammered. But I did get something out of his Data of Ethics. There's ...
— The Sea-Wolf • Jack London
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... so called are not responsible for their acts. Their apparent moral obliquity is, in reality, a mental deficiency, for which they are not any more to blame than you or I. I have seen men who had been guilty—yes, even convicted of most heinous crimes, who from the very conformation of their heads revealed certain things that, to say the least, should have been ...
— How to Become Rich - A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony • William Windsor
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Words linked to "Mental deficiency" :   subnormality, mental retardation, retardation, backwardness, moronity, slowness


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