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View synonyms for intellectual disability
intellectual disability
[ in-tl-ek-choo-uhl dis-uh-bil-i-tee ]
noun
- a developmental disorder characterized in varying degrees by significant limitations on intellectual abilities, such as learning, problem solving, and reasoning, and on adaptive abilities such as social and practical skills: the diagnostic term intellectual disability replaced the older designation mental retardation in the 2010s. : ID
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Word History and Origins
Origin of intellectual disability1
First recorded in 1805–10
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Example Sentences
An IQ below 70 generally indicates someone with intellectual disability (ID).
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First, there may have been fewer people with intellectual disability than there are now.
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Rudy is also intellectually delayed—an IQ test placed him at the borderline of intellectual disability.
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Nay, though one went from the dead, he could not bring it home to her that unsatisfied sex- uality is an intellectual disability.
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For some of the main historic facts on intellectual disability, see Westermarck, pp. 264-277.
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