mental deficiency vs backwardness

mental deficiency and backwardness both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hypernyms of mental deficiency include mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality.

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

mental deficiency vs backwardness

mental deficiency and backwardness both are nouns.

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