Definition of senility
: the quality or state of being senile : the physical and mental decline associated with old age; especially : the deterioration of cognitive functioning associated with old age
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Examples of senility in a Sentence
with his increasing senility, Granddad is beginning to have more and more senior moments
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Your 18-year-old cat could have health problems resulting in pain or could have a cognitive dysfunction, like senility or dementia.
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André’s ego is too large and impregnable to be deflated by senility.
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I was inclined to dismiss his fractious behavior as the first sign of senility.
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Few ideas in biology have been more fixed than the doctrine that people are born with a finite number of brain cells and go downhill from there, neuronwise, all the way to senility.
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First Known Use of senility
1791
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