mental deficiency

noun

psychiatry a less common term for mental retardation

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How to use mental deficiency in a sentence

Alcoholism in the parents is frequently the cause of mental deficiency.
Mentally Defective Children | Alfred Binet
One form, easily recognized, is what is commonly called "mental deficiency."
The Good Housekeeping Marriage Book | Various
Even if the patient recovers, whether as the result of operation or not, deaf-mutism or mental deficiency frequently occurs.
A System of Operative Surgery, Volume IV (of 4) | Various
We know now that, short of real mental deficiency, there is or ought to be no such personage as the dunce.
Progress and History | Various
A study of the hereditary transmission of mental deficiency in one family.
The Measurement of Intelligence | Lewis Madison Terman

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