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Definition of Feeblemindedness
1. Noun. Severe mental deficiency.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feeblemindedness
Literary usage of Feeblemindedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Heredity by American Genetic Association (1917)
"The result of this activity lias been very creditable. Thanks to the researches
of Goddard, the method of inheritance of feeblemindedness is as ..."
2. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"feeblemindedness with Special Abilities § 270. Special Abilities Not Socially
Significant. — One does not go very far in the study of feeblemindedness ..."
3. Neurosyphilis by Elmer Ernest Southard, Harry Caesar Solomon (1917)
"Provided that the family is free from feeblemindedness and mental disease, it
would seem that the retardation of a congenital syphilitic should perhaps be ..."
4. Clinical Studies in the Relationship of Insanity to Crime by Paul Eugene Bowers (1915)
"feeblemindedness. The greatest causative mental factor of crime is feeblemindedness.
... As we are only concerned with the symptoms of feeblemindedness that ..."
5. The Social Welfare Forum: Official Proceedings [of The] Annual Meeting by National Conference on Social Welfare, American Social Science Association (1921)
""With respect to the three factors—delinquency, feeblemindedness, and instability—we
may recognize six delinquent types as follows: (i) The feebleminded ..."
6. Social Legislation in Illinois: Needs and Opportunities in 1921 by Seba Eldridge (1921)
"... class of unfortunates will be progressively smaller, for ultimately we should
only have to deal with the feeblemindedness due to non-hereditary causes. ..."
7. Social Legislation in Illinois: Needs and Opportunities in 1921 by Seba Eldridge (1921)
"... class of unfortunates will be progressively smaller, for ultimately we should
only have to deal with the feeblemindedness due to non-hereditary causes. ..."
8. Nervous and Mental Disease Monograph Series (1917)
"In other words, whether a curatelle should be enforced on account of insanity or
on account of, feeblemindedness depends not upon the nature and degree of ..."
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