English Dictionary

second childhood

名詞

慣用表現

(idiomatic) The period or state of cognitive decline of an elderly person, characterized by childlike judgment and behavior.

日本語の意味

（比喩的）高齢者が認知機能の低下により、子供のような判断や行動を示す状態や期間

After his diagnosis, the family recognized a second childhood when he started making childlike decisions and became dependent on others.

診断の後、家族は彼が幼児のような判断をし、他人に頼るようになったことで、老年期の子ども返りに気づきました。

意味（1）

(idiomatic) The period or state of cognitive decline of an elderly person, characterized by childlike judgment and behavior.

King David being in his childhood, an old man, in his second childhood, for all old men are twice children, as the proverb is, Senex bis puer.

意味（2）

(idiomatic) A childlike state in any adult, resulting from mental illness, trauma, or other conditions.

Although at the commencement of the voyage I had been in bad health, and was at all times of a delicate constitution, I suffered less than any of us, being much less reduced in frame, and retaining my powers of mind in a surprising degree, while the rest were completely prostrated in intellect, and seemed to be brought to a species of second childhood, generally simpering in their expressions, with idiotic smiles, and uttering the most absurd platitudes.

second childhoods （ plural ）