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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: extreme mental retardation [syn: idiocy, amentia]

Merriam Webster's

noun Etymology: New Latin, from Latin, madness, from ament-, amens mad, from a- (from ab-) + ment-, mens mind — more at mind Date: 14th century mental retardation; specifically a condition of lack of development of intellectual capacity

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. Med. severe congenital mental deficiency. Etymology: L f. amens ament- mad (as A-(1), mens mind)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Amentia A*men"ti*a, n. [L.] (Med.) Imbecility; total want of understanding.

Moby Thesaurus

arrested development, backwardness, blithering idiocy, cretinism, half-wittedness, idiocy, idiotism, imbecility, infantilism, insanity, mental defectiveness, mental deficiency, mental handicap, mental retardation, mongolianism, mongolism, mongoloid idiocy, moronism, moronity, profound idiocy, retardation, retardment, simple-wittedness, simplemindedness, simpleness, simplicity, subnormality