Definition for Backwardness:

• The state of being backward.

Synonyms for Backwardness:

• n.

  •
  • restraint.
  •backwardness (noun)
  • retardation,
  • mental retardation,
  • slowness,
  • subnormality.
  •diffidence (noun)
  • shyness.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • coyness.
  •
  • timidity.
  •Other relevant words:
  • 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.