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RELATED WORDS : acquired immune deficiency syndrome color vision deficiency colour vision deficiency create by mental act creating by mental acts deficiency deficiency disease iron deficiency anaemia iron deficiency anemia lactase deficiency mass deficiency mental mental ability mental abnormality mental age mental anguish mental attitude mental balance mental block mental capacity mental case mental confusion mental defectiveness mental dexterity mental disease mental disorder mental disturbance mental energy mental exhaustion mental faculty mental health mental home mental hospital mental hygiene mental illness mental image mental imagery mental institution mental lexicon mental measurement mental note mental object mental picture mental process mental quickness mental rejection mental representation mental reservation mental retardation mental soundness mental state mental strain mental synthesis mental telepathist mental test mental testing mental unsoundness mineral deficiency vitamin deficiency zinc deficiency

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Noun mental deficiency has 1 sense

• mental deficiency(n = noun.cognition) moronity - mild mental retardation; Array
is a kind of backwardness, mental retardation, retardation, slowness, subnormality

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mental deficiency

aberration, abnormality, alienation, amentia, arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, brain damage, brainsickness, clouded mind, craziness, cretinism, daftness, dementedness, dementia, derangement, disorientation, distraction, folie, furor, half-wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, infantilism, insaneness, insanity, irrationality, loss of mind, loss of reason, lunacy, madness, mania, mental defectiveness, mental derangement, mental disease, mental disorder, mental disturbance, mental handicap, mental illness, mental instability, mental retardation, mental sickness, mind overthrown, mindsickness, mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, oddness, pixilation, possession, profound idiocy, queerness, rabidness, reasonlessness, retardation, retardment, senselessness, shattered mind, sick mind, sickness, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, strangeness, subnormality, unbalance, unbalanced mind, unsaneness, unsound mind, unsoundness, unsoundness of mind, witlessness

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