| NOUN | cognition | mental retardation, retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality | lack of normal development of intellectual capacities |
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| Meaning | lack of normal development of intellectual capacities. | |
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| Synonyms | retardation, backwardness, slowness, subnormality | |
| Narrower | abnormality, mental defectiveness | retardation sufficient to fall outside the normal range of intelligence |
| idiocy, amentia | extreme / extreme mental retardation | |
| imbecility | retardation more severe than a moron but not as severe as an idiot | |
| moronity, mental deficiency | mild mental retardation | |
| Broader | stupidity | A poor ability to understand or to profit from experience |
| Spanish | atraso, retraso mental, retraso | |
| Catalan | endarreriment, retard mental | |
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