Dotage vs Effete - What's the difference?
dotage | effete |
Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.
* 1841 , , The Old Curiosity Shop , ch. 1,
Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.
* 1598 , , Much Ado About Nothing , act 2, sc. 3,
foolish utterance; drivel
(label) Of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.
*, II.4.1.v:
Of people: lacking strength or vitality; feeble, powerless, impotent.
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Decadent, weak through self-indulgence.
Effeminate.
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As a noun dotage
is decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.As an adjective effete is
(label) of substances, quantities etc: exhausted, spent, worn-out.dotage
English
Noun
(en noun)- "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.
- CLAUDIO: And she is exceeding wise.
- DON PEDRO: In every thing but in loving Benedick. . . . I would she had bestowed this dotage on me.
- The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. — Milton.
Synonyms
* (loss of mental acuity associated with aging) second childhoodAnagrams
* *effete
English
Alternative forms
*Adjective
(en adjective)- Nature is not effœte , as he saith, or so lavish, to bestow all her gifts upon an age, but hath reserved some for posterity, to shew her power, that she is still the same, and not old or consumed.
- Amid the effete monarchies and princedoms of feudal Europe, morally and materially exhausted by the Thirty Years' War, the only hope of resistance to France lay in the little Republic of merchants, Holland.
- a good-humored, effete boy brought up by maiden aunts.