senility

• sinility

From senile + -ity.

• IPA^(key): /səˈnɪlɪti/

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• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

senility (countable and uncountable, plural senilities)

1. (chiefly uncountable) The bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age: Synonym of senescence.

   Antonyms: juvenescence, juvenility

   Near-synonym: second childhood

2. (chiefly uncountable) The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.

   Antonym: juvenility

   He was entering his years of senility and not liking it a bit.

3. (countable, archaic) An elderly, senile person.

   Antonym: juvenile

   • 1934 May, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, page 117:

     There was no need for George Playford to talk as if they were doddering senilities.

• senile (adjective)