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mental age

NOUN
degree of mental development
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Hunnam’s take on Gein’s voice is based on information that described him as having a very young mental age and on his mother’s insistence that she wished he’d been born a girl.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2026

It’s not cute watching and adult man regress to the mental age of a three-year-old.

From Salon ● Mar. 1, 2024

Her mental age was about 5 or 6 years old, her parents said in the claim.

From Fox News ● Jan. 21, 2020

The judges were told the woman's daughter is in her 20s, is 22 weeks pregnant, and has the mental age of a child aged between the age of six and nine.

From BBC ● Jun. 24, 2019

School children have a certain advantage in it over older persons of the same mental age whose school experience is less recent.

From The Measurement of Intelligence An Explanation of and a Complete Guide for the Use of the Stanford Revision and Extension of the Binet-Simon Intelligence Scale by Ellwood Patterson Cubberley




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