ALL meanings of mental age
men·tal age
M m - noun mental age psychological capacity 1
- noun mental age the level of native mental ability or capacity of an individual, usually as determined by an intelligence test, in relation to the chronological age of the average individual at this level: a ten-year-old child with the mental age of a twelve-year-old; a mental age of twelve. 1
- countable noun mental age A person's mental age is the age which they are considered to have reached in their ability to think or reason. 0
- noun mental age the mental ability of a child, expressed in years and based on a comparison of his test performance with the performance of children with a range of chronological ages 0
- noun mental age an individual's degree of mental development measured in terms of the chronological age of the average individual of corresponding mental ability 0
- noun mental age How old one appears to be based solely on mental ability and function. 0