Senectitude vs Dotage - What's the difference?
senectitude | dotage |
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
As nouns the difference between senectitude and dotage
is that senectitude is old age while dotage is decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility.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.