[Visual Vocabulary] Senility = Dotage = Old age

[Sandesh Kumar Sodhi]

Senility
Usage examples -

• A senile person.
• A senile maturity of judgment.
• Senility and Alzheimer's are two different things.
• I am looking forward to my senility with a smile on my face.
  

Etymological note -
This word and and the word senior both has same Latin root sen (old man).
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Dotage
Usage examples -

• Plant a fabulous tree for your dotage.
• As retirement approaches, you focus more on preserving the wealth you've built up and intend to live on in your dotage.

Mnemonic -
Can we represent old man's brain as dot to display feebleness of mind due to old age?



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Posted By Sandesh Kumar Sodhi to Visual Vocabulary at 11/17/2006 04:35:00 PM