| 释义 |
subnorˈmality
[f. prec. + -ity.]
a. The condition of being subnormal (spec. mentally subnormal); severe subnormality (see quot. 1959). Also Comb., as subnormality hospital, a hospital for patients who are severely subnormal.
1890Lancet 11 Jan. 105/1 Muscle soreness, and subnormality of temperature on the fourth day. 1935C. L. Burt Subnormal Mind i. 8, I shall restrict myself to those forms of subnormality which seem to be chiefly mental in their origin. 1959Mental Health Act 7 & 8 Eliz. II lxxii §4 (2) In this Act ‘severe subnormality’ means a state of arrested or incomplete development of mind which includes subnormality of intelligence and is of such a nature or degree that the patient is incapable of living an independent life. 1965Mod. Law Rev. XXVIII. v. 580 Persons who..receive local authority services for sub-normality. 1968Economist 21 Dec. 37/2 Had she been of below average intelligence she could have been sent to a subnormality hospital. a1974R. Crossman Diaries (1977) III. 644 No, out on tour studying the sub-normality hospitals, but I thought I would come down and put in an appearance. |