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mental age

noun as in degree of mental development

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The victim in the Arizona case, Adkins, was mentally disabled and was estimated to have a mental age of 13.

Miranda was very young at the time of writing, compared with her present mental age.

The calculation of mental age is therefore simplicity itself.

This figure we will use to indicate his mental age as distinguished from his chronological or physical or actual age.

If a child's mental age is the same as his chronological age, he is just average, neither bright nor dull.

This is the mental age divided by the chronological, and is usually expressed in per cent.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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