mental age

mental age

noun

Definition of MENTAL AGE

: a measure used in psychological testing that expresses an individual's mental attainment in terms of the number of years it takes an average child to reach the same level

Examples of MENTAL AGE

1. a 40-year-old man with the mental age of 10

First Known Use of MENTAL AGE

1910

Rhymes with MENTAL AGE

batting cage, center stage, disengage, golden age, legal age, middle age, multistage, ossifrage, overage, report stage, saxifrage, scarlet sage, underage