dotage

dotage
Synonyms and related words:
advanced age, advanced years, age, age of retirement, an incurable disease, anility, blind faith, caducity, childishness, credulity, credulousness, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, disposition to believe, dotardism, ease of belief, eld, elderliness, feebleness, fondness, green old age, gross credulity, hale old age, hoary age, infatuation, infirm old age, infirmity, infirmity of age, longevity, old age, oldness, overcredulity, overcredulousness, overopenness to conviction, overtrustfulness, pensionable age, rash conviction, ricketiness, ripe old age, second childhood, senectitude, senile debility, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senile weakness, senilism, senility, senior citizenship, superannuation, the downward slope, the golden years, trustfulness, uncritical acceptance, uncriticalness, unquestioning belief, unripe acceptation, unskepticalness, unsuspectingness, unsuspiciousness, vale of years, white hairs, will to believe, willingness to believe, wishful belief, wishful thinking

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  • Dotage — Do tage, n. [From {Dote}, v. i.] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. [1913 Webster] Capable of distinguishing between the… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • dotage — index caducity, incapacity Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • dotage — the state of one who dotes, c.1300; see DOTE (Cf. dote) + AGE (Cf. age). Originally of all sorts of mental impairment, not just that resulting from old age. First recorded late 14c. for senility …   Etymology dictionary

  • dotage — senility, *age, senescence Antonyms: infancy …   New Dictionary of Synonyms

  • dotage — [n] feebleness, old age advanced age, decrepitude, elderliness, fatuity, imbecility, infirmity, second childhood*, senectitude, senility, weakness; concepts 405,715 Ant. childhood, strength, youngness, youth, youthfulness …   New thesaurus

  • dotage — ► NOUN ▪ the period of life in which a person is old and weak. ORIGIN from DOTE(Cf. ↑doting) + AGE(Cf. ↑ age) …   English terms dictionary

  • dotage — [dōt′ij] n. [ME < doten, DOTE] 1. feeble and childish state due to old age; senility 2. a doting; foolish or excessive affection …   English World dictionary

  • Dotage — Wikipedia does not have an encyclopedia article for Dotage (search results). You may want to read Wiktionary s entry on dotage instead.wiktionary:Special:Search/dotage …   Wikipedia

  • dotage — [[t]do͟ʊtɪʤ[/t]] N UNCOUNT: usu poss N If someone is in their dotage, they are very old and becoming weak. Even in his dotage, the Professor still sits on the committee. ...spending his dotage in a riverside cottage …   English dictionary

  • dotage — n. to be in one s dotage * * * [ dəʊtɪdʒ] to be in one s dotage …   Combinatory dictionary

  • dotage — noun a) Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility. More care! said the old man. . . . There were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at… …   Wiktionary

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