| NOUN | cognition | slowness, awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness | unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training |
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| attribute | slowness, deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness | a rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry | |
| cognition | slowness, retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, subnormality | lack of normal development of intellectual capacities |
| Sounds | slow'nahs | |
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| Rhymes | abacus ... zealous: 1164 rhymes with ahs... | |
| Meaning | unskillfulness resulting from a lack of training. | |
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| Synonyms | awkwardness, clumsiness, ineptness, ineptitude, maladroitness | |
| Narrower | rustiness | ineptitude or awkwardness as a consequence of age or lack of practice |
| Broader | unskillfulness | A lack of cognitive skill |
| Spanish | desmaña, ineptitud, torpeza | |
| Catalan | ineptitud | |
| Adjectives | slow | slow to learn or understand |
| Meaning | A rate demonstrating an absence of haste or hurry. | |
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| Synonyms | deliberation, deliberateness, unhurriedness | |
| Narrower | dilatoriness, procrastination | slowness as a consequence of not getting around to it |
| leisureliness | slowness by virtue of being leisurely | |
| Broader | pace, rate | The relative speed of progress or change |
| Spanish | calma, calmosidad, lentitud | |
| Catalan | calma, lentitud | |
| Adjectives | slow | not moving quickly |
| slow | at a slow tempo | |
| Meaning | lack of normal development of intellectual capacities. | |
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| Synonyms | retardation, mental retardation, backwardness, 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 | |
| Adjectives | slow | slow to learn or understand |
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