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backwardness 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
  1. retardation: lack of normal development of intellectual capacities
  2. An economically backward economy is defined as one which makes less progress than normal. USSR leader Gorbachev once said “If you don’t move forward, sooner or later you begin to move backward.” The backwardness model is a theory of economic growth created by Alexander Gerschenkron. ...
  3. The state of being backward; reluctance
  4. (backwardly) In a backward direction