'Senility' definitions:
Definition of 'senility'
(from WordNet)
noun
Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations [syn: dotage, second childhood, senility]
noun
The state of being senile
Definition of 'Senility'
From: GCIDE
- Senility \Se*nil"i*ty\, n. [Cf. F. s['e]nilit['e].] The quality or state of being senile; old age. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'senility'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- aboriginality,
- abulia,
- advanced age,
- advanced years,
- age,
- age of retirement,
- an incurable disease,
- ancien regime,
- ancientness,
- anility,
- antiquity,
- arteriosclerotic psychosis,
- atavism,
- caducity,
- certifiability,
- childishness,
- cobwebs of antiquity,
- debility,
- decline,
- decline of life,
- declining years,
- decrepitude,
- dementia paralytica,
- dipsomania,
- dotage,
- dotardism,
- drug addiction,
- dust of ages,
- eld,
- elderliness,
- eldership,
- feebleness,
- folie du doute,
- functional psychosis,
- general paralysis,
- general paresis,
- great age,
- green old age,
- hale old age,
- hoary age,
- hoary eld,
- incapacity,
- infirm old age,
- infirmity,
- infirmity of age,
- insipidity,
- instability,
- invalidism,
- inveteracy,
- longevity,
- metabolic psychosis,
- moral insanity,
- neurosis,
- old age,
- old order,
- old style,
- oldness,
- organic psychosis,
- paralytic dementia,
- pathological drunkenness,
- pensionable age,
- presenile dementia,
- primitiveness,
- primogeniture,
- primordialism,
- primordiality,
- prison psychosis,
- psychopathia,
- psychopathia sexualis,
- psychopathic condition,
- psychopathic personality,
- psychopathy,
- psychosis,
- ricketiness,
- ripe old age,
- second childhood,
- senectitude,
- senescence,
- senile debility,
- senile dementia,
- senile psychosis,
- senile weakness,
- senilism,
- senior citizenship,
- seniority,
- sexual pathology,
- shakiness,
- situational psychosis,
- superannuation,
- syphilitic paresis,
- the downward slope,
- the golden years,
- toxic psychosis,
- unfirmness,
- unsoundness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsturdiness,
- unsubstantiality,
- vale of years,
- vapidity,
- venerableness,
- wateriness,
- white hairs,
- wishy-washiness