backwardness

2 definitions found

backwardness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  backwardness \back"ward*ness\, n.
     The state of being backward.
     [1913 Webster]

backwardness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  backwardness
      n 1: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities [syn:
           retardation, mental retardation, backwardness,
           slowness, subnormality]