Schwachsinn

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1)  nonsense
 * 2)  mental retardation, amentia
 * 1)  mental retardation, amentia
 * 1)  mental retardation, amentia

Usage notes
Similar to the English, the term Schwachsinn is no longer an accepted way to refer to intellectually disabled people in the German-speaking world. However, the German penal code still uses the term Schwachsinn as a category of insanity that can lead to a defendant being deemed not guilty, so the term is still commonly encountered in this sense in legal texts.