Decrepitude vs Decrepitness - What's the difference?
decrepitude | decrepitness |
the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use
* 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
* 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
As nouns the difference between decrepitude and decrepitness
is that decrepitude is the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use while decrepitness is decrepitude.decrepitude
English
Noun
- There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.
- This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude ?