Senility synonyms

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old age
The advanced years of life, esp. human life, often thought of as being those years after 60 or 65 and characterized by a marked decline in strength and vigor
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dotage
Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree.
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decline
The last part
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alzheimer-s-disease
(Neurology, pathology) A disorder involving loss of mental functions resulting from brain tissue changes; senile dementia of Alzheimer's type.
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senescence
(Cell biology) Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage.
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youth (antonym)
An early period of development or existence:
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caducity
The state of being impermanent or transitory.
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anecdotage
A collection of anecdotes
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feebleness
The quality or state of being feeble; debility; infirmity.
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anility
The condition of being anile.
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infirmity
Debility caused by ill health or advanced age.
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senile dementia
A progressive, abnormally accelerated deterioration of mental faculties and emotional stability in old age, occurring especially in Alzheimer's disease.
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second-childhood
Senility; dotage.
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sere and yellow leaf
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infancy (antonym)
The definition of infancy is the early stage of something, or is the time period when a person is a baby.
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childhood (antonym)
(Uncountable) The state of being a child.
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age (related)
The condition of being old; old age
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weakness (related)
A special fondness or inclination:
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decrepitude
The condition of being decrepit; feebleness or infirmity
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debilitation (related)
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loss-of-memory (related)
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  • Of the remaining 398 deaths, 101 were attributed to senility; and for 297 deaths the cause was either ill-defined or unknown.

  • In general we find an analogy between the development of groups and of organs; we discover that each phyletic branch of certain organisms traverses a geologic career comparable to the life of an individual, that we may often distinguish, especially among invertebrates, a phase of youth, a phase of maturity, a phase of senility or degeneration foreshadowing the extinction of a type.

  • As people with Down syndrome age, they face an increased chance of developing the brain disease called Alzheimer's (sometimes referred to dementia or senility).

  • Symptoms included such things as mental sluggishness, loss of concentration, poor memory, irritability, lack of confidence, excessive worry, hypochondria, depression, obsession, suicidal tendencies, and senility.

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