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From senile +‎ -ity.

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Noun

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senility (countable and uncountable, plural senilities)

  1. (chiefly uncountable) The bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age: Synonym of senescence.
    Antonyms: juvenescence, juvenility
    Near-synonym: second childhood
  2. (chiefly uncountable) The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.
    Antonym: juvenility
    He was entering his years of senility and not liking it a bit.
  3. (countable, archaic) An elderly, senile person.
    Antonym: juvenile
    • 1934 May, Hearst's International combined with Cosmopolitan, page 117:
      There was no need for George Playford to talk as if they were doddering senilities.
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