feeble-mindedness
Lack of intellect
Feeble-mindedness is weakness or deficiency of mind.
Once a clinical term for intellectual disability, it now survives mainly as an insult suggesting stupidity or poor judgment: The feeble-mindedness of that decision staggers me.
The term is dated and offensive when applied to people with actual cognitive disabilities.
Diminished function or capacity
- disabilityImpairment affecting life activities
- limitationBound on extent
- deficiencyLack of something needed
- incapacityLack of ability
slowness · dullness · incompetence · ineptitude · simplemindedness · intellectual · developmental · learning
Belonging to earlier times
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- outdatedNo longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- outmodedNo longer in fashion
dated · anachronistic · eugenics · institutionalization · asylum · Victorian · Edwardian · superseded
Unjust differential treatment
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
- derogatoryExpressing criticism or disrespect
dehumanization · marginalization · ostracism · shame · disgrace · slur · pejorative · offensive
Lacking ability to cope
- defenselessnessState of being unprotected
- susceptibilityLiability to influence
- exploitationSelfish use of others
- dependencyState of needing support
frailty · weakness · fragility · precariousness · endangerment · exposure · guardianship · ward
impairment
Diminished function or capacity
- disabilityImpairment affecting life activities
- limitationBound on extent
- deficiencyLack of something needed
incapacity · slowness · dullness · incompetence · ineptitude · simplemindedness · intellectual · developmental · learning · functioning
archaic
Belonging to earlier times
- obsoleteNo longer in use
- outdatedNo longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
outmoded · dated · anachronistic · eugenics · institutionalization · asylum · Victorian · Edwardian · superseded · deprecated
discrimination
Unjust differential treatment
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
- labelingAssigning identifying markers
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
derogatory · dehumanization · marginalization · ostracism · shame · disgrace · slur · pejorative · offensive · ableism
helplessness
Lacking ability to cope
- defenselessnessState of being unprotected
- susceptibilityLiability to influence
- exploitationSelfish use of others
dependency · frailty · weakness · fragility · precariousness · endangerment · exposure · guardianship · ward · protection
- ___-mindedness wordsopen-mindedness, closed-mindedness, narrow-mindedness, broad-mindedness, like-mindedness
- Old Ailmentsconsumption, dropsy, ague, apoplexy, phthisis
- mental flawsstupidity, ignorance, foolishness, dullness, obtuseness
- criminologycrime, criminology, criminal behavior, criminologist, criminalization
feeble-mindednessintelligence
Mental ability, cognitive capacity
brilliance · genius · quick-wittedness · mental sharpness · mental acuity
feeble-mindednessstrong-mindedness
Firmness of will
right-mindedness · clear-headedness · level-headedness · mental fortitude · sanity
feeble-mindednessstrong-mindedness
Firmness of will
mental fortitude · resoluteness · decisiveness · determination · willpower
feeble, mind, minds, minded, mindful, mindless, mindfully, mindlessly, mindfulness