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second childhood

Senility; dotage.

second childhood

dotage; senility (esp in the phrases in his, her, etc., second childhood)

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second childhood - mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations

dotage, senility

eld, geezerhood, old age, years, age - a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood"

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second childhood n → seconda infanzia

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I am falling into second childhood -- I am becoming stupid indeed

Ten Years Later by Dumas, Alexandre View in context

"In short, you recommend me to anticipate the arrival of my second childhood," said poor Mr.

Middlemarch by Eliot, George View in context

Major Effingham, in declining the liberal offers of the British ministry, had subjected himself to the suspicion of having attained his dotage, by all those who throng the avenues to court patronage, even in the remotest corners of that vast empire; but, when he thus voluntarily stripped himself of his great personal wealth, the remainder of the community seemed instinctively to adopt the conclusion also that he had reached a second childhood.

The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context

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