senility
/sɪˈnɪlɪti
/noun [mass noun]
The condition of being senile: the onset of senility...
- Deafness is a catalyst that pushes many elderly people into seclusion, isolation, and even senility.
- For the general practitioner a well-used library is one of the few correctives of the premature senility which is so apt to overtake him.
- Diminished alertness from these drugs in elderly patients may be confused with senility or dementia.
Synonyms
decrepitude, infirmity, feebleness, unsteadiness, senescence, decline, old age, dotage, second childhood, confusion, Alzheimer's (disease), senile dementia
informal softening of the brain
rare caducity, anility
Rhymes
- health-giving
- health hazard
- healthily
- healthiness
- health inspector
- health insurance
- health maintenance organization
- health-obsessed
- health officer
- health physics
- health resort
- health savings account
- health scare
- health service
- health spa
- health tourism
- health tourist
- health visitor
- health warning
- healthy
- healthy-looking
- Heaney, Seamus
- heap
- heap coals of fire on someone's head
- hear