senility

senility
Synonyms and related words:
aboriginality, abulia, advanced age, advanced years, age, age of retirement, an incurable disease, ancien regime, ancientness, anility, antiquity, arteriosclerotic psychosis, atavism, caducity, certifiability, childishness, cobwebs of antiquity, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, dementia paralytica, dipsomania, dotage, dotardism, drug addiction, dust of ages, eld, elderliness, eldership, feebleness, folie du doute, functional psychosis, general paralysis, general paresis, great age, green old age, hale old age, hoary age, hoary eld, incapacity, infirm old age, infirmity, infirmity of age, insipidity, instability, invalidism, inveteracy, longevity, metabolic psychosis, moral insanity, neurosis, old age, old order, old style, oldness, organic psychosis, paralytic dementia, pathological drunkenness, pensionable age, presenile dementia, primitiveness, primogeniture, primordialism, primordiality, prison psychosis, psychopathia, psychopathia sexualis, psychopathic condition, psychopathic personality, psychopathy, psychosis, ricketiness, ripe old age, second childhood, senectitude, senescence, senile debility, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senile weakness, senilism, senior citizenship, seniority, sexual pathology, shakiness, situational psychosis, superannuation, syphilitic paresis, the downward slope, the golden years, toxic psychosis, unfirmness, unsoundness, unsteadiness, unsturdiness, unsubstantiality, vale of years, vapidity, venerableness, wateriness, white hairs, wishy-washiness

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Synonyms:
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  • senility — index caducity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 senility …   Law dictionary

  • Senility — Se*nil i*ty, n. [Cf. F. s[ e]nilit[ e].] The quality or state of being senile; old age. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • senility — 1791, from SENILE (Cf. senile) + ITY (Cf. ity) …   Etymology dictionary

  • senility — dotage, *age, senescence Analogous words: infirmity, feebleness, weakness, decrepitude (see corresponding adjectives at WEAK): childishness, child likeness (see corresponding adjectives at CHILDLIKE): decay, disintegration (see DECAY vb) …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • senility — noun a) The losing of memory and reason due to old age. He was entering his years of senility and not liking it a bit. b) An elderly, senile person. See Also: senile …   Wiktionary

  • senility — senatvė statusas T sritis Kūno kultūra ir sportas apibrėžtis Baigiamasis žmogaus amžiaus tarpsnis nuo 75 iki 90 metų. Senatvei būdingi požymiai – ribotos organizmo prisitaikymo galimybės ir morfologiniai įvairių sistemų bei organų pokyčiai.… …   Sporto terminų žodynas

  • senility — senile ► ADJECTIVE ▪ having the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties. ► NOUN ▪ a senile person. DERIVATIVES senility noun. ORIGIN Latin senilis, from senex old man …   English terms dictionary

  • senility — noun Date: 1791 the quality or state of being senile; specifically the physical and mental infirmity of old age …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • senility — n. [L. senex, old] Old age …   Dictionary of invertebrate zoology

  • senility — /si nil i tee/, n. the state of being senile, esp. the weakness or mental infirmity of old age. [1770 80; SENILE + ITY] * * * …   Universalium

  • senility — Old age; a general term for a variety of organic disorders, both physical and mental, occurring in old age. [see senile] * * * se·nil·i·ty si nil ət ēalso se n, pl ties the quality or state of being senile specif the physical and mental infirmity …   Medical dictionary

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