Idiom
second childhood
Meaning
The period or state of cognitive decline of an elderly person, characterized by childlike judgment and behavior.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“He acts like he is in his second childhood lately.”
“The family worried when their grandfather started behaving erratically, wondering if he had entered his second childhood.”
“As the aging patriarch began to exhibit the whimsical yet confused temperament of a second childhood, his children struggled to balance his newfound joy with the reality of his declining health.”
Examples
simple
“He acts like he is in his second childhood lately.”
contextual
“The family worried when their grandfather started behaving erratically, wondering if he had entered his second childhood.”
complex
“As the aging patriarch began to exhibit the whimsical yet confused temperament of a second childhood, his children struggled to balance his newfound joy with the reality of his declining health.”
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