diminished capacity
noun[U]
lawUSspecializedus/dɪˌmɪn.ɪʃt kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/uk/dɪˌmɪn.ɪʃt kəˈpæs.ə.ti/(UKdiminished responsibility)theconditionin which someone'smentalstate, etc.causesthem not to be infullcontroloftheiractions:
Theaccusedpleadednotguiltyongroundsofdiminishedcapacity.
Mental illnesses
- ad
- adjustment disorder
- age-associated memory impairment
- anhedonia
- anorexia nervosa
- attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
- hoarder
- hoarding
- Hyde
- hypochondriac
- hypochondriasis
- hysterical
- Jekyll and Hyde
- nervous breakdown
- psychosis
- self-alienation
- senility
- somatization
- somatize
- Stockholm syndrome
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