mental retardation vs abnormality

mental retardation and abnormality both are nouns.

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

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

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

Other hyponyms of mental retardation include mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, moronity, amentia, idiocy, imbecility, savant syndrome.

mental retardation (noun)	abnormality (noun)
lack of normal development of intellectual capacities	behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
	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

mental retardation vs abnormality

mental retardation and abnormality both are nouns.

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