second childhood
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second childhood
noun second childhoods
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The period or state of cognitive decline of an elderly person, characterized by childlike judgment and behavior.
King David being in his childhood, an old man, in his second childhood, for all old men are twice children, as the proverb is, Senex bis puer.
Similar: dotage, senescence, senility
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A childlike state in any adult, resulting from mental illness, trauma, or other conditions.
For myself, although at the commencement of the voyage I had been in bad health, and was at all times of a delicate constitution, I suffered less than any of us, being much less reduced in frame, and retaining my powers of mind in a surprising degree, while the rest were completely prostrated in int
Similar: dementia
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