ANILITY Synonyms: 25 Similar and Opposite Words

anility

noun

Definition of anility

as in second childhood

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Many artists—Titian and de Kooning alike—have found a second childhood in old age; no other painter ever became younger in his sixties.

— Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 25 Dec. 2023
Now that prestige art movies are either gross or failing at the box office, EO shows us that film culture is going through a jaded second childhood.

— Armond White, National Review, 2 Dec. 2022

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Trump has boosted a conspiracy theory that Biden’s administration used the autopen without his knowledge to cover up his alleged senility.

— Joseph Konig, PEOPLE, 2 July 2026
Then the interview happens, and Thomas is swinging between lucidity and senility, and a million things about their relationship come up, and the fiction records the interview the phone couldn’t capture.

— Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 5 Apr. 2026

Definition of senility

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At twenty-four, the soprano ability gone, his coffers emptied by heroin and scammers, Lymon, in his addict’s senescence, spoke to a reporter from Ebony magazine; a year later, he would be found dead on his grandmother’s bathroom floor.

— Doreen St. Félix, New Yorker, 18 Aug. 2026
What jolted it out of its unremarkable senescence and put it on a kamikaze course for the moon?

— Mike Wall, Space.com, 3 Aug. 2026

Definition of senescence

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These data points help illustrate the brand’s risk tolerance, growth strategy, system maturity and unit retention outlook.

— Angelo Chavez, Forbes.com, 4 Sep. 2026
That experience helped shape Antares’ thinking around reliability and manufacturing maturity.

— Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 2 Sep. 2026

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