slowness vs abnormality

abnormality vs slowness

slowness and abnormality both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
slowness	Yes	No	No	No
abnormality	Yes	No	No	No

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

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

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

slowness (noun)	abnormality (noun)
a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry	behavior that breaches the rule or etiquette or custom or morality
lack of normal development of intellectual capacities	marked strangeness as a consequence of being abnormal
unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training	retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence
	an abnormal physical condition resulting from defective genes or developmental deficiencies

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