dotage

[Do·tage]

The noun dotage describes the mental decline that many elderly people eventually experience. Those in their dotage sometimes act silly or forgetful.

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Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.

Noun
mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations


v. i.
Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.

v. i.
Foolish utterance; drivel.

v. i.
Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.


Dotage

Do"tage , n. [From Dote, v. i.] 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature.
2. Foolish utterance; drivel.
The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.
3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
The dotage of the nation on presbytery.

Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.

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Usage Examples

We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.

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