mental age

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nounPsychology.
  1. 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.

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Origin of mental age

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First recorded in 1910–15

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How to use mental age in a sentence

  • This is the mental age divided by the chronological, and is usually expressed in per cent.

    Psychology | Robert S. Woodworth

British Dictionary definitions for mental age

mental age

noun
  1. psychol 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: See also intelligence quotient

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