mental age
Example Sentences
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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
They also argued his sentence was unconstitutional because although he was 18 at the time of the killing, his mental age and maturity lagged behind his actual age.
From Washington Times • May 4, 2018
Children of the lower mental age have also a tendency to venture wild guesses at words they do not know.
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 Cubberley, Ellwood Patterson
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
