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Definition of Moronity

1. Noun. Mild mental retardation.

Definition of Moronity

1. moronism [n -TIES] - See also: moronism

Lexicographical Neighbors of Moronity

Literary usage of Moronity

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Clinical Studies in Feeble-mindedness by Edgar Arnold Doll (1917)
"A generic term including all classes of arrested mental development amounting to IDIOCY, IMBECILITY and moronity (qV) ; in this book used synonymously with ..."

2. The Development of Intelligence in Children: (the Binet-Simon Scale) by Alfred Binet (1916)
"The border line between imbecility and moronity is not more difficult to establish. An imbecile is a person who is incapable of communicating with his ..."

3. The Kingdom of Evils: Psychiatric Social Work Presented in One Hundred Case by Elmer Ernest) Southard, Mary Cromwell Jarrett (1922)
"The positive evidence for the moronity in Florence is derived almost wholly ... We are familiar with numerous cases in which moronity has been confused with ..."

4. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1916)
"... the subject abounds in these " sport" cases of the unusual and spectacular variety rather than those of the ordinary cases of imbecility and moronity. ..."

5. The Measurement of Intelligence: An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for by Lewis Madison Terman (1916)
"... which will not develop above 11 or 12 years. i What shall we say of cases like the last two which test at high-grade moronity or at border-line, ..."

6. Manual of Mental and Physical Tests: A Book of Directions Compiled with by Guy Montrose Whipple (1914)
"... that Binet and Simon used reading in their 1908 scale as a differentiating test between imbecility and moronity. Wallin's work with epileptics shows ..."

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