What is "mental deficiency"

Usage examples of "mental deficiency".

His memory of certain periods in his past was somewhat hazy, not because of any mental deficiency, but solely because he was such a tomorrow-oriented person, focused on the future in which he would grow younger and closer to perfection.

It will take time to make people realize that insanity or mental deficiency is neither a shame nor a sin.

The horrid thought of mental deficiency crossed her mind, to be dismissed by the sight of him, so unequivocally whole and invulnerable.

However, upon the death of the Baron's father, Dmitri Harkonnen, the old Emperor had, through some mental deficiency, granted the seat of power to the softhearted Abulurd, who had managed to decimate spice production in a mere seven years.

Santaroga reported no cases of mental illness or mental deficiency to the State Department of Mental Hygiene.

He recalled Narrin, the idiot slave in the jail, and wondered if slavery itself produced mental deficiency, or if impaired children were callously sold to the traders.

I put it down to mental deficiency on my part, but since then I have decided that it was for want of preparation.

The public would-with some justice-now link reanimation with possible mental deficiency afterward.

In fact, he assiduously avoided getting any closer to him than was absolutely necessary, as if the little man's mental deficiency was a contagion that might leap to him like a plague of lice.