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Definition: Second Childhood |
Second ChildhoodNoun1. Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Second ChildhoodSynonyms: dotage (n), senility (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Age | Noun: age; oldness; Adjective: old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf"; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | Second Childhood (1966) His Second Childhood (1914) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
Expression using "second childhood": in second childhood. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
second childhood | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "second childhood"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | старческо вдетиняване. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kekanak-kanakan (childish). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 耄碌 (senility), 本卦還り (dotage, reaching age of 60), 本卦帰り (dotage, reaching age of 60). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ほ"けがえり (dotage, reaching age of 60), もうろく (senility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Manx | lambaneys yn chenn eash. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | econdsay ildhoodchay segunda infancia (infant). (various references) bunama (dotage), bunaklık (caducity, dementia, dotage, senility). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-c-d-d-d-e-h-h-i-l-n-o-o-o-s" | |
-5 letters: childhoods. | |
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