A person's mental ability expressed as the age at which an average person reaches the same ability.
智力年龄；心理年龄
she was 65 but had a mental age of two
她65岁了，但心理年龄只有2岁。
Example sentencesExamples
Assessments should be made from childhood so that people with a mental age of nine or ten are not left to fend for themselves.
The keen Stockport County and Manchester City fan, who was 38 when he vanished, was described as having a mental age of an eight-year-old child and needed constant care and medication for epilepsy.
Indeed, by the time children's mental ages reach 24 months, significant delays in expressive language abilities are evident in 83% to 100% of children with Down syndrome.
Police are becoming increasingly worried for the safety of a 13-year-old with a mental age of eight who went missing a week ago.
I would also point out that if an adult were found to have the mental age of a 10 year old, they would be considered unfit to stand trial.
Definition of mental age in US English:
mental age
nounˈmen(t)l ājˈmɛn(t)l eɪdʒ
A person's mental ability expressed as the age at which an average person reaches the same ability.
智力年龄；心理年龄
she was 65 but had a mental age of two
她65岁了，但心理年龄只有2岁。
Example sentencesExamples
Police are becoming increasingly worried for the safety of a 13-year-old with a mental age of eight who went missing a week ago.
The keen Stockport County and Manchester City fan, who was 38 when he vanished, was described as having a mental age of an eight-year-old child and needed constant care and medication for epilepsy.
Indeed, by the time children's mental ages reach 24 months, significant delays in expressive language abilities are evident in 83% to 100% of children with Down syndrome.
I would also point out that if an adult were found to have the mental age of a 10 year old, they would be considered unfit to stand trial.
Assessments should be made from childhood so that people with a mental age of nine or ten are not left to fend for themselves.