Synonyms for Backwardness:

• n.

  •
  • restraint.
  •backwardness (noun)
  • retardation,
  • mental retardation,
  • slowness,
  • subnormality.
  •benightedness (noun)
  • lack education,
  • lack knowledge,
  • un enlightenment,
  • un-knowing,
  • un-enlightenments,
  • unenlightenments,
  • un-enlightenment,
  • un enlightenments,
  • unknowings,
  • un knowing.
  •cognition (noun)
  • backwardness.
  •diffidence (noun)
  • sheepishness,
  • insecurity,
  • self-consciousness,
  • unassertiveness,
  • in security,
  • timorousness,
  • shyness,
  • mousiness.
  •ignorance (noun)
  • darkness,
  • benightedness.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • diffidence,
  • lack of education,
  • lateness,
  • unenlightenment,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • retiringness,
  • timidness,
  • reserve,
  • lack of knowledge,
  • taciturnity.
  •reserve (noun)
  • re serve,
  • un-responsiveness,
  • re serves,
  • un responsiveness,
  • selfrestraint,
  • un responsivenesses,
  • self restraint,
  • re-serve,
  • un-responsivenesses,
  • re-serves.
  •shyness (noun)
  • demureness,
  • hesitancy.
  •taciturnity (noun)
  • selfcontrol.
  •uncommunicativeness (noun)
  • un communicativenesses,
  • un communicativeness,
  • un-communicativeness,
  • un-communicativenesses.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • coyness.
  •
  • timidity.
  •Other relevant words:
  • carrel,
  • impassiveness,
  • inanition,
  • simmpleness,
  • dawdle,
  • incarcerate,
  • languor,
  • self-will,
  • foolishness,
  • mongolianism,
  • iciness,
  • obstinance,
  • lassitude,
  • dissension,
  • study,
  • procrastinate,
  • delicacy,
  • infantile fixation,
  • abnormalcy,
  • imprison,
  • cubicle,
  • limit,
  • abashment,
  • numbness,
  • computing,
  • self-distrust,
  • conk,
  • sales booth,
  • booth,
  • pigheadedness,
  • confrontation,
  • wait,
  • hesitance,
  • space,
  • substitute,
  • check,
  • hold up,
  • inhibition,
  • outdistance,
  • dilly-dally,
  • stand,
  • down syndrome,
  • trisomy 21,
  • horror,
  • chilliness,
  • shadow,
  • elision,
  • unsuitableness,
  • chemical reaction,
  • computation,
  • fixation,
  • fencesitter,
  • electrical resistance,
  • obtuseness,
  • retreat,
  • foe,
  • bluntness,
  • flatness,
  • climb-down,
  • cold,
  • inconsistency,
  • resistivity,
  • curtailment,
  • separation,
  • swarthiness,
  • restriction,
  • wickedness,
  • shamefacedness,
  • infolding,
  • second-stringer,
  • density,
  • nonchalance,
  • variance,
  • reckoning,
  • vacillation,
  • stalling,
  • waver,
  • hold,
  • opponent,
  • figuring,
  • electric resistance,
  • reservation,
  • resist,
  • invagination,
  • regression,
  • meantime,
  • slow-wittedness,
  • drug withdrawal,
  • drag one's feet,
  • fall back,
  • unmanageableness,
  • free will,
  • ease,
  • stiffness,
  • tightness,
  • lethargy,
  • exclusion,
  • remand,
  • freakishness,
  • disengagement,
  • divergence,
  • discernment,
  • advisement,
  • circumstance,
  • length,
  • dark,
  • averting,
  • kiosk,
  • slack,
  • immure,
  • holdup,
  • control,
  • duskiness,
  • irregularity,
  • dumbness,
  • meanwhile,
  • cumbersomeness,
  • laxity,
  • immunity,
  • frigidity,
  • stockpile,
  • faltering,
  • set aside,
  • conservativism,
  • resistor,
  • mulishness,
  • uncomfortableness,
  • underground,
  • compactness,
  • apathy,
  • dissonance,
  • simple mindedness,
  • allow,
  • earmark,
  • response,
  • noncompliance,
  • retard,
  • military reserve,
  • emotionlessness,
  • falter,
  • independent,
  • easiness,
  • jug,
  • impedance,
  • insulation,
  • weighing,
  • unconcern,
  • protest,
  • fall behind,
  • stifling,
  • gaol,
  • stolidity,
  • simpleness,
  • recalcitrancy,
  • self-doubt,
  • enemy,
  • foeman,
  • wavering,
  • retainer,
  • insularism,
  • disagree,
  • oppositeness,
  • secession,
  • prudence,
  • stay,
  • onanism,
  • low temperature,
  • backlog,
  • condition,
  • gracelessness,
  • folly,
  • discreetness,
  • aloofness,
  • phlegm,
  • stave,
  • repulsion,
  • concentration,
  • incompatibility,
  • caution,
  • put behind bars,
  • interim,
  • take issue,
  • considerateness,
  • pulling out,
  • worthlessness,
  • nuisance value,
  • appropriate,
  • coolness,
  • crushing,
  • outstrip,
  • shillyshally,
  • breakup,
  • jail,
  • thoughtfulness,
  • unwieldiness,
  • unsuitability,
  • quelling,
  • objection,
  • put away,
  • spiritlessness,
  • backdown,
  • down's syndrome,
  • modestness,
  • revulsion,
  • dillydally,
  • carrell,
  • cunctation,
  • betise,
  • mutual exclusiveness,
  • insularity,
  • bullheadedness,
  • discrepancy,
  • impassivity,
  • withdrawal method,
  • drag one's heels,
  • unemotionality,
  • uneasiness,
  • refractoriness,
  • detain,
  • time lag,
  • chasteness,
  • intussusception,
  • postponement,
  • book,
  • opposite,
  • differ.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • disobedience,
  • repugnance,
  • circumspection,
  • constraint,
  • introversion,
  • Royalism,
  • bashfulness,
  • aversion,
  • mugwump,
  • reaction,
  • Sulks,
  • tardiness,
  • withdrawal,
  • idiocy,
  • delay,
  • reluctance,
  • awkwardness,
  • clumsiness,
  • stubbornness,
  • monarchism,
  • ineptitude,
  • foot-dragging,
  • Arrearage,
  • retirement,
  • resistance,
  • arrears,
  • maladroitness,
  • antipathy,
  • hesitation,
  • laxness,
  • discretion,
  • stupidity,
  • Indisposedness,
  • slowing,
  • infantilism,
  • obstinacy,
  • abnormality,
  • suppression,
  • cogitation,
  • slackness,
  • imbecility,
  • stall,
  • ineptness,
  • dilatoriness,
  • repression,
  • mental deficiency,
  • modesty,
  • Aversation,
  • Nolition,
  • lag,
  • deliberateness,
  • dissent,
  • reactionism,
  • unhurriedness,
  • disinclination,
  • distaste,
  • Renitency,
  • coldness,
  • conservatism,
  • retardent,
  • sluggishness,
  • insanity,
  • calculation,
  • distance,
  • cretinism,
  • Retardment,
  • unwillingness,
  • refusal,
  • arrested development,
  • procrastination,
  • detachment,
  • exception,
  • opposition,
  • mongolism,
  • recalcitrance,
  • disagreement,
  • remissness,
  • slowdown,
  • simplicity,
  • consideration,
  • limitation,
  • Nolleity,
  • retardant,
  • deliberation,
  • Renitence,
  • indifference,
  • amentia,
  • indisposition,
  • deceleration,
  • reticence,
  • Indocility.

Paraphrases for Backwardness:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    underdevelopment, retardation, under-development.

• Independent

  • Adjective
    delayed, underdeveloped, overdue.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    deprivation, shortfall.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    backward, late.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    backward, backlog, tardiness, disadvantage, lateness, lags, slippage, Delaying, setback.

Antonyms for Backwardness:

• n.

  • shyness
    boldness, confidence.
  • Other antonyms:
    egotism, abandon, loquaciousness, assurance, frankness, impudence, self-sufficiency, sauciness, pertness, arrogance, loquacity, indiscretion, haughtiness, conceit, assumption, freedom, sociability, Self-conceit.

Homophones for Backwardness:

• bigheartedness.

Hypernym for Backwardness:

• n.

  • cognition
    idiocy, amentia, mental defectiveness, moronity, imbecility, abnormality, mental deficiency.

Hyponym for Backwardness:

• n.

  • cognition
    stupidity.