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Senile vs Decrepitude - What's the difference?

senile | decrepitude |

As an adjective senile

is of, or relating to old age.

As a noun decrepitude is

the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use.

senile

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, or relating to old age.
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  • (often, offensive) Exhibiting the deterioration in mind and body often accompanying old age; doddering.

    • Derived terms

    * senile dementia

    Related terms

    * senate * senator * senescence * senility * senior * seniority

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    decrepitude

    English

    Noun

  • the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use
  • * 1781, Samuel Johnson, Lives of the Poets
    • There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature.
  • * 1839, Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
    • This was the probable destination of his sister Kate. His uncle had deceived him, and might he not consign her to some miserable place where her youth and beauty would prove a far greater curse than ugliness and decrepitude ?