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Senility vs Decrepitude - What's the difference?

senility | decrepitude |

As nouns the difference between senility and decrepitude

is that senility is (uncountable) senescence; the bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age while decrepitude is decrepitude, decay.

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

    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 ?