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Definition of senility in English: senilitynoun sɪˈnɪlɪtisəˈnɪlədi mass nounThe condition of being senile. Example sentencesExamples - The concept of senility may also be a generalization from the increasing number of older people who develop dementia.
- For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to overtake him.
- People fear attenuated senility more than death.
- Diminished alertness from these drugs in elderly patients may be confused with senility or dementia.
- Deafness is a catalyst that pushes many elderly people into seclusion, isolation, and even senility.
Synonyms decrepitude, infirmity, feebleness, unsteadiness, senescence, decline, old age, dotage, second childhood, confusion, Alzheimer's (disease), senile dementia informal softening of the brain rare caducity, anility
Rhymesability, agility, civility, debility, docility, edibility, facility, fertility, flexility, fragility, futility, gentility, hostility, humility, imbecility, infantility, juvenility, liability, mobility, nihility, nobility, nubility, puerility, servility, stability, sterility, tactility, tranquillity (US tranquility), usability, utility, versatility, viability, virility, volatility Definition of senility in US English: senilitynounsəˈnɪlədisəˈnilədē The condition of being senile. Example sentencesExamples - Deafness is a catalyst that pushes many elderly people into seclusion, isolation, and even senility.
- Diminished alertness from these drugs in elderly patients may be confused with senility or dementia.
- People fear attenuated senility more than death.
- The concept of senility may also be a generalization from the increasing number of older people who develop dementia.
- For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to overtake him.
Synonyms decrepitude, infirmity, feebleness, unsteadiness, senescence, decline, old age, dotage, second childhood, confusion, alzheimer's, alzheimer's disease, senile dementia |