second childhood
noun
senility; dotage.
Origin of second childhood
First recorded in 1900–05
Words nearby second childhood
second baseman,
second best,
second birth,
second blessing,
second chamber,
second childhood,
second class,
second coming,
second commandment,
second consonant shift,
second cousin
Example sentences from the Web for second childhood
They look like so many grandfathers in their second-childhood.
Grandfather's Chair |Nathaniel Hawthorne
British Dictionary definitions for second childhood
second childhood
noun
dotage; senility (esp in the phrases in his, her, etc, second childhood)
Idioms and Phrases with second childhood
second childhood
The dotage of old age; also, childlike playfulness in an adult. For example, Grandpa needs full-time care, now that he's in his second childhood, or Since he retired and started learning to fly, he's been in his second childhood. Depending on the context, this term may allude either to such problems of old age as losing one's mental or physical capacities or to delighting in new pleasures in a childlike fashion. [c. 1900]