chronological age

noun

, Psychology.

the number of years a person has lived, especially when used as a standard against which to measure behavior, intelligence, etc.

How does chronological age compare to similar and commonly confused words? Explore the most common comparisons:

He had given his name as Steve Donnell, his date of birth as 3576, his chronological age as seventeen.

In the warm daylight, Steve looked even older than the twenty-six years that was his chronological age.

If a child's mental age is the same as his chronological age, he is just average, neither bright nor dull.

It is an actual fact that the chronological age of an individual need not have much to do with his physical age.

The intelligence quotient (often designated as I Q) is the ratio of mental age to chronological age.

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