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retardism

noun

Etymology

From retard + -ism.

  1. derived from retardāre
  2. derived from retarder
  3. inherited from retarden
  4. suffixed as retardism — “retard + ism”

Definitions

  1. Mental retardation

    • Epileptic seizures are rather common among the mentally retarded, but are considered to be concomitant with the retardism rather than a cause of it.
    • Chapter titles reveal attention to specific areas of emotional disability, including behavior disorders; symptomatic autism in adolescence; pseudo-retardism; school refusal; anorexia nervosa; and passive, aggressive, selective mutes.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for retardism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA