second childishness

noun

Roget 128: age; oldness^† etc. adj.; old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility^†, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity^†, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, sear and yellow leaf" [Macbeth]; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.    seniority, eldership; elders etc. (veteran) 130; firstling; doyen, father; primogeniture.    [Science of old age.] geriatrics, nostology^†.    ... show more

Roget 499: want of intelligence etc. 498, want of intellect etc. 450; shadowness^†, silliness, foolishness etc. adj.; imbecility, incapacity, vacancy of mind, poverty of intellect, weakness of intellect, clouded perception, poor head, apartments to let; stupidity, stolidity; hebetude^†, dull understanding, meanest capacity, shortsightedness; incompetence etc. (unskillfulness) 699.    one's weak side, not one's strong point; bias etc. 481; infatuation etc. (insanity) 503.    simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility^†, second childishness, fatuity; idiocy, idiotism^†; driveling.    folly, frivolity, irrationality, trifling, ineptitude, nugacity^†, inconsistency, lip wisdom, conceit; sophistry etc. 477; giddiness etc. (inattention) 458; eccentricity etc. 503; extravagance etc. (absurdity) 497; rashness etc. 863.    act of folly etc. 699.    ... show more

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