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AMENTIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does amentia mean? 

AMENTIA (noun)
  The noun AMENTIA has 1 sense:

1. extreme mental retardationplay

  Familiarity information: AMENTIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


AMENTIA (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Extreme mental retardation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

amentia; idiocy

Hypernyms ("amentia" is a kind of...):

backwardness; mental retardation; retardation; slowness; subnormality (lack of normal development of intellectual capacities)


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