Hypertext Webster Gateway: "backwardness"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Backwardness \Back"ward*ness\, n.
The state of being backward.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
backwardness
n : lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn:
{retardation}, {mental retardation}, {slowness}, {subnormality}]
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