Senility Definition

noun

A mental feebleness or insanity that results from old age and is both incurable and progressive. A person so afflicted is not capable of entering into a binding contract or of executing a will. See also competent and incompetent.

Webster's New World Law

(uncountable) Senescence; the bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age.

Wiktionary

(uncountable) The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.

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

(countable, archaic) An elderly, senile person.

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Other Word Forms of Senility

Noun

Singular:
senility
Plural:
senilities

Senility Sentence Examples

  • 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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