mental ability
41mental retardation — noun lack of normal development of intellectual capacities • Syn: ↑retardation, ↑backwardness, ↑slowness, ↑subnormality • Derivationally related forms: ↑subnormal (for: ↑subnormality), ↑ …
42Mental image — A mental image is an experience that, on most occasions, significantly resembles the experience of perceiving some object, event, or scene, but occurs when the relevant object, event, or scene is not actually present to the senses.[1][2][3][4]… …
43Mental health professional — A mental health professional is a health care practitioner who offers services for the purpose of improving an individual s mental health or to treat mental illness. This broad category includes psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, clinical… …
44Mental Capacity Act 2005 — The Mental Capacity Act 2005[1] Parliament of the United Kingdom Long title An Act to make new provision relating to persons who lack capacity; to establ …
45ability — noun 1 skill/power to do sth ADJECTIVE ▪ exceptional, extraordinary, great, outstanding, remarkable, uncanny ▪ inherent, innate, natural …
46ability — noun plural abilities (C, U) 1 something that you are able to do, especially because you have a particular mental or physical skill: ability to do sth: Our ability to think and speak separates us from other mammals. | have the ability to do sth ( …
47mental age — noun (C) a measure of someone s ability to think, obtained by comparing their ability with the average ability of children at various ages: a 25 year old man with a mental age of seven …
48mental retardation — a developmental disorder characterized by a subnormal ability to learn and a substantially low IQ. [1900 15] * * * Subaverage intellectual ability that is present from birth or infancy and is manifested by abnormal development, learning… …
49ability — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. power, skill, competency, capacity, capability, aptitude, faculty, talent (inf.), know how; what it takes (si). Ant., inability, incompetency. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Capacity to act] Syn. aptitude,… …
50ability — The power to perform a mental or physical task either before or after training. Social psychologists usually distinguish ability from aptitude, the natural ability to acquire or learn a body of knowledge, sometimes measured by an aptitude test.… …
