mental retardation vs mental deficiency

mental retardation and mental deficiency both are nouns.

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

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

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

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

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

mental retardation vs mental deficiency

mental retardation and mental deficiency both are nouns.

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