Amentia

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Amentia \A*men"ti*a\ ([.a]*m[e^]n"sh[i^]*[.a]), n. [L.] (Med.)
     Mental retardation. [archaic]
     [1913 Webster + AS]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  amentia
       n : extreme mental retardation [syn: {idiocy}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  27 Moby Thesaurus words for "amentia":
     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