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Lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
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backwardness
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The state of being backward. 2 reluctance.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1580s, from backward + -ness .
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Not to be confused with Cultural backwardness The backwardness model is a theory of economic growth created by Alexander Gerschenkron . The model postulates that the more backward an economy is at the outset of economic development, the more likely certain ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
backwardness \back"ward*ness\, n. The state of being backward.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn: retardation , mental retardation , slowness , subnormality ]
Usage examples of backwardness.
A swathe of portal destruc- tion had swung across the million-star volume all around Leseum back in the time of the Arteria Collapse, leaving only the bunched Leseum systems themselves connected inside a vast volume of backwardness.
But Ross Barnett was heir to a political tradition that often cursed Mississippi with leaders of neolithic racism and appalling backwardness.
I had now to confess that I was unskilled in the native American folk dances which I had observed being performed, whereupon she briskly chided me for my backwardness, but commanded a valse from the musicians, and this we danced together.
And the same testimony to their backwardness in open battle reached me from all sides.
Last, by investing the time and resources needed to build a new Iraq, the United States would ensure that it would not be intervening in Iraq again in the near future and would create a new ally in the Arab world that could help bring further stability and progress to the region, rather than contributing to its backwardness and instability--as a new dictatorship or an Iraq torn by civil war or warlordism would.
Last, by investing the time and resources needed to build a new Iraq, the United States would ensure that it would not be intervening in Iraq again in the near future and would create a new ally in the Arab world that could help bring further stability and progress to the region, rather than contributing to its backwardness and instability—as a new dictatorship or an Iraq torn by civil war or warlordism would.