mental retardation vs idiocy

mental retardation and idiocy both are nouns.

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

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

mental retardation: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
idiocy: extreme mental retardation

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

mental retardation (noun)	idiocy (noun)
lack of normal development of intellectual capacities	extreme mental retardation

mental retardation vs idiocy

mental retardation and idiocy both are nouns.

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