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Dotage vs Senility - What's the difference?

dotage | senility |

Senility is a antonym of dotage.



As nouns the difference between dotage and senility

is that dotage is decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility while senility is senescence; the bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age.

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

    Anagrams

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    senility

    English

    Noun

  • (uncountable) Senescence; the bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age.
  • (uncountable) The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.
    • He was entering his years of senility and not liking it a bit.
  • (countable, archaic) An elderly, senile person.

    • Related terms

    * senile