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MENTAL AGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does mental age mean?
• MENTAL AGE (noun)
The noun MENTAL AGE has 1 sense:
1. the level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence test
Familiarity information: MENTAL AGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence test
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("mental age" is a kind of...):
age (how long something has existed)
Context examples
The impairments are incongruent with the individual's developmental level or mental age.
(Pervasive Developmental Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)
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