mental retardation vs imbecility

mental retardation and imbecility both are nouns.

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

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

mental retardation: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
imbecility: retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot

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

mental retardation (noun)	imbecility (noun)
lack of normal development of intellectual capacities	a stupid mistake
	retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot

mental retardation vs imbecility

mental retardation and imbecility both are nouns.

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