OLDNESS Synonyms: 24 Similar and Opposite Words

oldness

noun

Definition of oldness

as in senility

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Recent Examples of oldness Then there were some streaks of about three hundred people identifying the advent of oldness to the early, mid, and late sixties. — Literary Hub, 20 July 2026

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Noun

Her cause of death was chronic nephritis with senility, according to The Herald News.

— Lynsey Eidell, PEOPLE, 20 Sep. 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

Noun

Debbie Wasserman Schultz highlights experience and congressional seniority Wasserman Schultz, who is seeking her 12th term in Congress, entered the District 20 race after her previous district was redrawn.

— Tania Francois, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Collins hit back by pitching her seniority and her role as chair of the Senate Appropriations Committee.

— Elizabeth Robinson, NBC news, 7 Oct. 2026

Definition of seniority

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Most people reckoned Graham would continue serving into his dotage before his unexpected death in July of an aortic dissection.

— Kathleen Parker, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026
Far from being a sign of dotage, scientists concurred, music practice in old age confers all kinds of cognitive benefits.

— Tim Parks, New Yorker, 11 Apr. 2026

Definition of dotage

Noun

The study, which analyzed nearly 800,000 individuals across their lifespan, found that clinical obesity rates climbed through adulthood.

— Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 13 Oct. 2026
Moon, meanwhile, is struggling at school but on the precipice of adulthood; as the young woman begins to make her own decisions in life, Yue must relinquish a degree of maternal responsibility.

— Guy Lodge, Variety, 11 Oct. 2026

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