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Dotage vs Dotary - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between dotage and dotary

is that dotage is decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility while dotary is (obsolete) a dotard's weakness; dotage.

dotage

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
  • * 1841 , , The Old Curiosity Shop , ch. 1,
    • "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 first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
  • Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.
  • * 1598 , , Much Ado About Nothing , act 2, sc. 3,
    • CLAUDIO: And she is exceeding wise.
    DON PEDRO: In every thing but in loving Benedick. . . . I would she had bestowed this dotage on me.
  • foolish utterance; drivel
    • The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. — Milton.

    Synonyms

    * (loss of mental acuity associated with aging) second childhood

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    dotary

    English

    Noun

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  • (obsolete) A dotard's weakness; dotage.
    • (Drayton)
    (Webster 1913)