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Doddering vs Tottering - What's the difference?

doddering | tottering | Synonyms |

As adjectives the difference between doddering and tottering

is that doddering is mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile while tottering is unsteady, precarious or rickety.

As verbs the difference between doddering and tottering

is that doddering is present participle of lang=en while tottering is present participle of lang=en.

As nouns the difference between doddering and tottering

is that doddering is a shaking or trembling movement, as of old age while tottering is the movement of one who totters.

doddering

English

Adjective

(-)
  • mentally or physically infirm due to old age; senile

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • A shaking or trembling movement, as of old age.
  • * 2001 , Seth Kohn, Escape on the Silk Road (page 7)
    • Now that he was next in line to the minister of state security himself, an 82 year old man whose dodderings Fang graciously covered up to save everyone's face, Fang had a huge problem.

    tottering

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Unsteady, precarious or rickety.
  • Unstable, insecure or wobbly.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • Noun

    (en noun)
  • The movement of one who totters.
  • * George Moore
    • Its faint descent tried the powers of the horse to keep back the car, and so feeble were his totterings that I began to fear we should miss the train

    Synonyms

    * (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, unsteady, unsafe, unstable, wobbly