feeble-mindedness
Example Sentences
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Goddard’s proposed cure to the nation’s feeble-mindedness was widely implemented.
From Slate ● Jun. 14, 2021
The Ohio researcher said that some of his subjects were "greatly influenced by the pleasant appearance or smile, but for some the smile denotes intelligence and for others it denotes feeble-mindedness."
From Slate ● Jan. 10, 2012
We give these figures only that it may not be imagined that we are dealing with cases of slight feeble-mindedness with a retardation of one or two years.
From Mentally Defective Children by Alfred Binet
Neither did he die an old man, to whom the adherents of monism would certainly have the effrontery to impute feeble-mindedness, but at the early age of forty-six years.
From At the Deathbed of Darwinism A Series of Papers by Edwin V. O'Harra
Most mental traits are even more complex in appearance than feeble-mindedness.
From Applied Eugenics by Paul Popenoe
