second childhoodnoun [ S ]
uk/ˌsek.ənd ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/us/ˌsek.ənd ˈtʃaɪld.hʊd/a situation in which someone starts to behave like a child, especially because of mental weakness caused by old age:
Her grandfather's in his second childhood and talks nonsense most of the time.
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The elderly
- a ripe old age idiom
- aged
- ageism
- agism
- centenarian
- crock
- geriatrics
- gerontology
- infirmity
- octogenarian
- old
- old age
- old age pensioner
- old boy
- sb's declining years idiom
- senile
- senior citizen
- septuagenarian
- seventies
- sexagenarian
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