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emotional age
n. The chronological age of individuals of the same maturity as the person in question.
Usage examples of "emotional age".
Age, however, is one of the most difficult categories to evaluate, as chronological and emotional age are frequently quite different.
Evidently the American children of the late twentieth century not only lived interior fantasy lives richer than those of children at any other time in history, but they seemed to have gotten from their fantasies something not provided by the elves and fairies and ghosts with which earlier generations of kids had entertained themselves: the ability to think about abstract concepts like space and time in a manner far beyond their intellectual and emotional age.