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RETARDATION

Definition:

1. [noun] a decrease in speed; "the deceleration of the arms race"
   Synonyms: deceleration, slowing
   
   
2. [noun] the extent to which something is delayed or held back
   
   
3. [noun] any agent that retards or delays or hinders; "flame-retardant"
   Synonyms: retardant, retardent
   
   
4. [noun] lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
   Synonyms: mental backwardness, slowness, subnormality
   
   
5. [noun] the act of slowing down or falling behind
   Synonyms: slowdown, lag
   
   

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Related Words:

• abnormality, mental defectiveness
• moronity, mental deficiency
• idiocy, amentia
• imbecility
• mongolism, mongolianism, Down's syndrome, Down syndrome, trisomy 21

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