mental age

1. 1.

   the level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence test

   Broaderage

Questions about mental age

What does mental age mean?

mental age means "the level of intellectual development as measured by an intelligence test".

Is mental age a common word?

mental age is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.