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second childhood

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second childhood
n.
Senility; dotage.
second childhood
Noun
the time in an old person's life when he or she starts to suffer from memory loss and confusion; senility
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Noun1.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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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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