abnormality vs mental retardation

abnormality and mental retardation both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
abnormality	Yes	No	No	No
mental retardation	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mental retardation is a hypernym of abnormality; that is, mental retardation is a word with a broader meaning than abnormality:

abnormality: retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
mental retardation: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

Other hypernyms of abnormality include backwardness, retardation, slowness, subnormality.

abnormality (noun)	mental retardation (noun)
behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality	lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies

abnormality vs mental retardation

abnormality and mental retardation both are nouns.

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