mental defectiveness vs mental retardation

mental retardation vs mental defectiveness

mental defectiveness and mental retardation both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of mental defectiveness include backwardness, retardation, slowness, subnormality.

mental defectiveness (noun)	mental retardation (noun)
retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence	lack of normal development of intellectual capacities

mental defectiveness vs mental retardation

mental defectiveness and mental retardation both are nouns.

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