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Synonyms & Antonyms of mental deficiency
as in mental retardation
Synonyms & Near Synonyms for mental deficiency
- absurdity,
- asininity,
- balminess,
- craziness,
- daftness,
- dippiness,
- dottiness,
- fatuousness,
- folly,
- idiocy,
- inaneness,
- inanity,
- insanity,
- lunacy,
- madness,
- nincompoopery,
- nonsensicalness,
- nuttiness,
- preposterousness,
- silliness,
- simplicity,
- wackiness,
- zaniness
- boneheadedness,
- brainlessness,
- denseness,
- density,
- dim-wittedness,
- doltishness,
- dopiness,
- dorkiness,
- dullness
- (also dulness),
- dumbness,
- fatuity,
- foolishness,
- gormlessness
- [chiefly British],
- mindlessness,
- oafishness,
- obtuseness,
- senselessness,
- simpleness,
- slowness,
- stupidity,
- stupidness,
- thickness,
- vacuity,
- weak-mindedness,
- witlessness
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“Mental deficiency.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/mental%20deficiency. Accessed 21 Apr. 2021.
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The first known use of mental deficiency was in 1820
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