senility

[US]/si'niləti/
[UK]/sɪˈnɪlɪti/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

n. state of being senile

Example Sentences

The elderly man showed signs of senility.

Her grandmother's senility made it difficult for her to remember things.

Senility is a common issue among the elderly population.

The doctor diagnosed him with early-onset senility.

His forgetfulness was often mistaken for senility.

The nursing home specialized in caring for patients with senility.

Research is ongoing to find a cure for senility.

She worried about her own senility as she grew older.

The family struggled to cope with their grandfather's senility.

Senility can have a significant impact on a person's quality of life.

Real-world Examples

Then doctors diagnosed a hopeless senility or hardening of the arteries.

Source: Modern University English Intensive Reading (2nd Edition) Volume 3

At forty-four, Linda seemed, by contrast, a monster of flaccid and distorted senility.

Source: Brave New World

Fugues of amnesia. Symptoms of second childhood— what do they call it? —senility?

Source: Flowers for Algernon

In 1968, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention documented 293 deaths from dementia, senility, and Alzheimer's.

Source: Economic Crash Course

Even modest amounts of exercise protect against diseases ranging from diabetes and osteoporosis to heart attacks and senility.

Source: The Economist - Technology

To the tired student, the idea that he must give it up seemed sheer senility.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 2)

After that I had other plans for work, but, because of my approaching senility, somehow I failed to do what I had wished to.

Source: Selected Modern Chinese Essays 1

Their senility was congenital, like Gladstone's Oxford training and High Church illusions, which caused wild eccentricities in his judgment.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Volume 1)

It was not only that she was old and exhausted, but overnight the house had plunged into a crisis of senility.

Source: One Hundred Years of Solitude

The whole government, from top to bottom, was rotten with the senility of what was antiquated and the instability of what was improvised.

Source: The Education of Henry Adams (Part Two)

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