senility

  • 21senility — /sanilatiy/ Quality of being senile; an infirmity resulting from deterioration of mind and body experienced in old age. Feebleness of body and mind incident to old age; and an incapacity to contract arising from the impairment of the intellectual …

    Black's law dictionary

  • 22senility — Old age. The mental state or condition of a very old person. The weakness attendant upon old age, whether of mind or body. Equitable Life Assur; Soc. v Garrett, 25 Ala App 446, 148 So 338 …

    Ballentine's law dictionary

  • 23senility — noun 1. mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations • Syn: ↑dotage, ↑second childhood • Derivationally related forms: ↑senile • Hypernyms: ↑old age, ↑years, ↑ …

    Useful english dictionary

  • 24Computer senility (Red Dwarf) — Computer senility is a fictional concept developed in the Red Dwarf television series that considers how a sentient computer might develop mental instability if left alone for millions of years. Computer senility would therefore be a product of… …

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  • 25Sense and Senility — Infobox Television episode Title = Sense and Senility Series = Blackadder Caption = Kenarick and Mossop Airdate = 08/10/1987 Writer = Ben Elton, Richard Curtis Director = Guests = Hugh Paddick Kenneth Connor Episode list = List of Blackadder… …

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  • 26second childhood — senility; dotage. [1900 05] * * * …

    Universalium

  • 27old age — Senility, oldness …

    New dictionary of synonyms

  • 28John Traphagan — John W. Traphagan is a professor of Religious Studies, Japanese Studies, and Anthropology and former Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to becoming a professor at the University of Texas,… …

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  • 29dotage — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. senility, feebleness; fondness. See age, endearment. II (Roget s IV) n. Syn. feebleness, senility, second childhood; see senility . III (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. second childhood, senility,… …

    English dictionary for students

  • 30age — n 1 Age, senility, senescence, dotage are comparable when they denote the period in one’s life when one is old in years and declining in body or mind or both. Age is now usually replaced by old age except in literary use {age cannot wither her… …

    New Dictionary of Synonyms