backwardness vs mental deficiency

backwardness and mental deficiency both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
backwardness	Yes	No	No	No
mental deficiency	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, mental deficiency is a hyponym of backwardness; that is, mental deficiency is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than backwardness:

backwardness: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
mental deficiency: mild mental retardation

Other hyponyms of backwardness include abnormality, mental defectiveness, moronity, amentia, idiocy, imbecility, savant syndrome.

backwardness (noun)	mental deficiency (noun)
lack of normal development of intellectual capacities	mild mental retardation

backwardness vs mental deficiency

backwardness and mental deficiency both are nouns.

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