BACKWARDNESS as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
   Synonym(s)
   • mental retardation (what does mental retardation mean?)
   • retardation (what does retardation mean?)
   • slowness (what does slowness mean?)
   • subnormality (what does subnormality mean?)
   Hypernyms(s) backwardness is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • stupidity (what does stupidity mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • abnormality (what does abnormality mean?)
   • mental defectiveness (what does mental defectiveness mean?)
   • moronity (what does moronity mean?)
   • mental deficiency (what does mental deficiency mean?)
   • idiocy (what does idiocy mean?)
   • amentia (what does amentia mean?)
   • imbecility (what does imbecility mean?)
   • mongolism (what does mongolism mean?)
   • mongolianism (what does mongolianism mean?)
   • Down’s syndrome (what does Down’s syndrome mean?)
   • Down syndrome (what does Down syndrome mean?)
   • trisomy 21 (what does trisomy 21 mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • check (what does check mean?)
   • retard (what does retard mean?)
   • delay (what does delay mean?)