mental defectiveness vs slowness

mental defectiveness and slowness both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

mental defectiveness (noun)	slowness (noun)
retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence	a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry
	lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
	unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training

mental defectiveness vs slowness

mental defectiveness and slowness both are nouns.

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