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second childhood
noun
senility; dotage.
second childhood
noun
dotage; senility (esp in the phrases in his, her, etc, second childhood )
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of second childhood1
First recorded in 1900–05
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Idioms and Phrases
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]
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The toy sector has had a tough year, but second childhoods may just have provided a new seam to exploit.
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"But you are in second childhood, Michael," I tell myself.
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And so we filled that gap with a lot of leisure activities and this frenzied pursuit of a second childhood.
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“My dad made a lot of money and had a second childhood,” Moskowitz said.
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“I was having a kind of second childhood,” Bill Loud said in 1982.
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