senility
English
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Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /səˈnɪlɪti/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪlɪti
Noun
[edit]senility (countable and uncountable, plural senilities)
- (chiefly uncountable) The bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age: Synonym of senescence.
- Antonyms: juvenescence, juvenility
- Near-synonym: second childhood
- (chiefly uncountable) The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.
- Antonym: juvenility
- He was entering his years of senility and not liking it a bit.
- (countable, archaic) An elderly, senile person.
- Antonym: juvenile
- 1934 May, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, page 117:
- There was no need for George Playford to talk as if they were doddering senilities.
Derived terms
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[edit]- senile (adjective)
Translations
[edit]the losing of memory and reason
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