Imbecility vs Senility - What's the difference?
imbecility | senility |
The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind.
Something imbecilic; a stupid action, behaviour, etc.
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(uncountable) Senescence; the bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age.
(uncountable) The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.
(countable, archaic) An elderly, senile person.
As nouns the difference between imbecility and senility
is that imbecility is the quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, especially of mind while senility is senescence; the bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age.imbecility
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senility
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- He was entering his years of senility and not liking it a bit.