senility

senility

English

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Alternative forms

• sinility

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɪlɪti

Noun

senility (countable and uncountable, plural senilities)

1. (chiefly uncountable) Senescence; the bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age.
2. (chiefly uncountable) The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.

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

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

Antonyms

• juvenility

Related terms

• senile

Translations

the losing of memory and reason

Breton: kabac'hded (br) Catalan: senilitat f Chinese: 痴呆 (zh) (chidai) French: sénilité (fr) German: Senilität (de) f Greek: γεροντική άνοια f (gerontikí ánoia) Japanese: 耄碌 (mōroku)

Macedonian: изветреаност f (izvetréanost), излапеност f (izlápenost), сенилност f (sénilnost) Polish: starczość (pl) f Portuguese: senilidade (pt) f Romanian: senilitate (ro) f Russian: ста́рость (ru) f (stárostʹ), дря́хлость (ru) f (drjáxlostʹ) Spanish: senilidad (es) f

an elderly, senile person