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senility::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | dotage, second childhood |
| Type of | age, eld, geezerhood, old age, years |
| Derivation | senile |
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | oldness |
| Derivation | senile |
Examples of senility
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Overall, 16 percent of those studied developed dementia, also known as senility.
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This bane of early senility seems to be spreading through our little household.
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People used to call it senility, and it was accepted as a part of normal aging.
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Quinn's father, George, in whose house the novel opens, has slipped into senility.
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He says that the god of love shuns the very sight of senility and clings to youth.
From the en.wikipedia.org
The Japanese term boke is also used in the sense of a mental haze or senility.
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Decades ago, people believed old age caused anemia, an enlarged heart and senility.
From the democratandchronicle.com
High in iron, which helps deliver more oxygen to the brain, quinoa fights senility.
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I hung up the phone, determined to chalk his suggestion up to early senility.
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- Dotage: mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
- The state of being senile
- Dementia (taken from Latin, originally meaning "madness", from de- "without" + ment, the root of mens "mind") is a serious loss of cognitive ability in a previously unimpaired person, beyond what might be expected from normal aging. ...
- The losing of memory and reason due to old age; An elderly, senile person
- Popularized laymen's term used by doctors and the public alike to categorize the mental deterioration that may occur with aging.
- A term used to refer to the mental and physical deterioration of old age. Not a medical term. Also, see Dementia in this Glossary.
- 1. Originally, old age. 2. The physical decline associated with old age. 3. The mental decline once associated with old age but now known to be due to dementia, as for instance Alzheimer's disease and atherosclerosis. "The road to senility is paved with plaques." (Paul F. ...
- A disease of the elderly that causes memory loss with judgment and orientation problems. Senility results from brain cell damage the either occurs gradually over time or is the product of some traumatic incident such as a stroke.
- Cognitive changes often observed in older adults
