[
US
/səˈnɪɫəti/
]
[ UK /siːnˈɪlɪti/ ]
[ UK /siːnˈɪlɪti/ ]
NOUN
- the state of being senile
- mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
How To Use senility In A Sentence
- : cleansing or scouring agrestic: rural, rustic, unpolished, uncouth apodeictic: unquestionably true by virtue of demonstration caducity: perishableness, senility compossible: possible in coesistence with something else embrangle: to confuse or entangle exuviate: to shed (a skin or similar outer covering): short and stout, squat griseous Club Troppo
- The activity technology is proved by medical research that the superoxide dismutase (SOD) can eliminate excessive free radicals in the human body, and delay senility and the appearance of age pigment.
- The concept of senility may also be a generalization from the increasing number of older people who develop dementia.
- We ended up leaving at around midnight - a disgustingly early time and obvious evidence of our incipient senility.
- People fear attenuated senility more than death.
- A thirtieth birthday spent in Amsterdam, attempting to escape any pursuing sandmen a la Logan’s Run in a haze of cannabis smoke, may possibly have had some small contributory effect, but I’m sure it’s more than just too much weed and early onset senility. Notes from New Sodom: To the Water-Fountains by Hal Duncan
- He is yet in green vigorous senility.
- From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal procreator. Ulysses
- Crickets sang of nights in the stilly cabins, and in the sunshine mosquitoes crept from out hollow logs and snug crevices among the rocks, -- big, noisy, harmless fellows, that had procreated the year gone, lain frozen through the winter, and were now rejuvenated to buzz through swift senility to second death. CHAPTER 23
- The future may provide an anti - senility pill.