mental defectiveness
1mental defectiveness — noun retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence • Syn: ↑abnormality • Derivationally related forms: ↑abnormal (for: ↑abnormality) • Hypernyms: ↑retardation, ↑ …
2mental deficiency — Synonyms and related words: aberration, abnormality, alienation, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, cretinism, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement,… …
3mental retardation — noun lack of normal development of intellectual capacities • Syn: ↑retardation, ↑backwardness, ↑slowness, ↑subnormality • Derivationally related forms: ↑subnormal (for: ↑subnormality), ↑ …
4Mary Dendy Hospital — Coordinates: 53°17′38″N 2°17′10″W / 53.294°N 2.286°W / 53.294; 2.286 The Mary Dendy Hospital was a hospital for the …
5Charles Davenport — Charles B. Davenport at a 1921 eugenics conference Born June 1, 1866 …
6Duress in English law — For United States law on the criminal defense, as well as for duress in contract law, see duress. Duress in English law is a complete common law defence, operating in favour of those who commit crimes because they are forced or compelled to do so …
7insanity — Synonyms and related words: aberration, absurdity, alienation, amentia, arrested development, asininity, backwardness, battiness, blithering idiocy, brain disease, brainlessness, buffoonery, clownishness, crack up, crackpottedness, crankiness,… …
8amentia — Synonyms and related words: arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, cretinism, half wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, infantilism, insanity, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap, mental retardation,… …
9arrested development — Synonyms and related words: Freudian fixation, amentia, backwardness, blithering idiocy, cretinism, father fixation, fixation, half wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, infantile fixation, infantilism, insanity, libido fixation, mental… …
10cretinism — Synonyms and related words: acromegaly, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, choriocarcinoma, diabetes, diabetes insipidus, diabetes mellitus, dwarfism, giantism, half wittedness, hyperglycemia, hyperparathyroidism,… …
