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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
advanced age, advanced years, age of retirement, an incurable disease, anility, caducity, childishness, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, dotage, dotardism, eld, elderliness, feebleness, green old age, hale old age, hoary age, infirm old age, infirmity, infirmity of age, longevity, old age, oldness, pensionable age, ricketiness, ripe old age, senectitude, senile debility, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senile weakness, senilism, senility, senior citizenship, superannuation, the downward slope, the golden years, vale of years, white hairs
Dictionary Results for second childhood:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
second childhood
    n 1: mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes
         shown by foolish infatuations [syn: dotage, second
         childhood, senility]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Childhood \Child"hood\ (ch[imac]ld"h[oo^]d), n. [AS. cildh[=a]d;
   cild child + -h[=a]d. See Child, and -hood.]
   1. The state of being a child; the time in which persons are
      children; the condition or time from infancy to puberty.
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            I have walked before you from my childhood. --1.
                                                  Sam. xii. 2.
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   2. Children, taken collectively. [R.]
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            The well-governed childhood of this realm. --Sir. W.
                                                  Scott.
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   3. The commencement; the first period.
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            The childhood of our joy.             --Shak.
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   Second childhood, the state of being feeble and incapable
      from old age.
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