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mental age

 noun
     
Related topics: Psychology, Psychiatry, Measurement
mental age S3 [countable]
MPTM a measure of someone's ability to think, understand etc, expressed as the average age of a child with that level of ability:
a 25-year-old man with a mental age of seven
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