dotage
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Noun (1)
- mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuationsSynonyms: second childhoodsenilityType of old age, years
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Do′tage noun
Origin: From Dote, intransitive verb
1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
2. Foolish utterance; drivel.
The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.— John Milton
3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
The dotage of the nation on presbytery.— Bp. Gilbert Burnet
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54