Dotage

Definition: Dotage

Dotage

Noun

1. Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations.

Date "dotage" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Note: Dotage \Do"tage\, noun. [From Dote, intransitive verb.]. (Websters 1913)

Synonyms: Dotage

Synonyms: second childhood (n), senility (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Age	Noun: age; oldness; Adjective: old age, advanced age, golden years; senility, senescence; years, anility, gray hairs, climacteric, grand climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation; second childhood, second childishness; dotage; vale of years, decline of life, "sear and yellow leaf"; threescore years and ten; green old age, ripe age; longevity; time of life.
Imbecility Folly	Simplicity, puerility, babyhood; dotage, anility, second childishness, fatuity; idiocy, idiotism; driveling.
Insanity	Dotage; (imbecility).
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Dotage

English words defined with "dotage": Anility ♦ dotard, Dotary. (references)

Specialty definitions using "dotage": Drivelling Dotage ♦ Grangousier. (references)

Etymologies containing "dotage": Dotary. (references)

Title	Author	Quote
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	It would be sad injustice, the reader must understand, to represent all my excellent old friends as in their dotage.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Dotage" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Dotage" is used about 19 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	19	80,337

Expression using "dotage": be in one's dotage. Additional references.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language		Translations for "dotage"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		rrjedhje (derivation, dribble, efflux, effusion, escape, flow, flowing, flux, leak, leakage, ooze, outflow), matufosje. (various references)

Arabic		‏خرف (become senile, childishness, divagation, doddering, ramble, rambling, rant, rave, senile, senility). (various references)

Bulgarian		силна привързаност, вдетиняване. (various references)

Czech		dìtinství (childishness, puerility), stařecké dìtinství, senilita. (various references)

Danish		senilitet (senility). (various references)

Farsi		کودنی دراثرپیری , ضعف پیری . (various references)

Finnish		höpertynyt (in his dotage). (various references)

French		débilité sénile, second enfance, sénilité, gâtisme, caducité. (various references)

German		Senilität (senility). (various references)

Greek		ξεμωράματα. (various references)

Hebrew		זק� ות (old age, senility). (various references)

Hungarian		szenilitás (anility, caducity, senility). (various references)

Italian		rimbambimento. (various references)

Japanese Kanji		老い耄れ (dodderer, feeble-minded old man, senile old fool), 老いぼれ (dodderer, feeble-minded old man, senile old fool), 本卦還り (reaching age of 60, second childhood), 本卦帰り (reaching age of 60, second childhood). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		おいぼれ (dodderer, feeble-minded old man, senile old fool), ほ�"けがえり (reaching age of 60, second childhood). (various references)

Manx		shenn-chaillaghys, lambaanys (childhood, infancy, pusillanimity), lambaanid (childhood, infancy, pusillanimity), branlaadys (delerium, dreaminess, hallucination, raving). (various references)

Pig Latin		otageday

Portuguese		senilidade (anility, caducity, consenescence, senility), caducidade (decrepitude). (various references)

Russian		старческое слабоумие (anility, senility). (various references)

Scottish		breolaid. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		staračka iznemoglost, slepa ljubav (blind love). (various references)

Spanish		chochez. (various references)

Swedish		dåraktig kärlek, senilitet (senility). (various references)

Turkish		düşkünlük (addiction, affection, decay, devotion, fanaticism, fixation, fondness, keenness, mania, partiality, poverty), tutku (addiction, ambition, bug, crush, cult, desire, fervency, indulgence, pash, passion, penchant, rage), ihtiyarlık (decrepitude, old age, senescence, senility), bunama (second childhood), bunaklık (caducity, dementia, second childhood, senility). (various references)

Ukrainian		старече слабоумство (anility), обожнювання (adoration, apotheosis, canonization, cult, deification, idolatry, worship). (various references)

Vietnamese		tình trạng lẫn. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	senectus. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "dotage": dotages. (additional references)
	Words ending with "dotage": anecdotage. (additional references)
	Words containing "dotage": anecdotages. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Dotage" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: botargo, Botteghe, datae, diage, dodage, Domagk, Donagh, dotare, dotie, dottage, Duchlage, Dupage, Kotiga, notage, sottage, totage. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: togaed.
	Words within the letters "a-d-e-g-o-t"
	-1 letter: gated, godet, togae.
	-2 letters: aged, dago, date, dato, doat, doge, dote, egad, gaed, gate, geta, goad, goat, odea, toad, toea, toed, toga.
	-3 letters: ado, age, ago, ate, dag, doe, dog, dot, eat, ego, eta, gad, gae, gat, ged, get, goa, god, got, oat, ode, tad, tae, tag, tao, tea, ted, teg, tod, toe.
	Words containing the letters "a-d-e-g-o-t"
	+1 letter: dotages, fagoted, garoted, gloated, goateed, tangoed, togated.
	+2 letters: derogate, dragonet, faggoted, garotted, garroted, gatefold, gavotted, globated, goatherd, montaged, outraged, portaged, ragouted, waterdog.
	+3 letters: abrogated, arrogated, cataloged, cogitated, delegator, derogated, derogates, dogmatize, downstage, dragonets, elongated, floodgate, garrotted, gatefolds, gladstone, goatherds, godfather, godparent, mortgaged, obligated, outargued, outgained, outgassed, outglared, outgnawed, outranged, sabotaged, waterdogs.
	+4 letters: anecdotage, catalogued, coagulated, colligated, conjugated, corrugated, decorating, delegation, delegators, denegation, denigrator, dermatogen, derogating, derogation, derogative, derogatory, designator, desolating, detonating, dogcatcher, dogmatized, dogmatizer, dogmatizes, dogwatches, downstages, floodgates, foredating, gadolinite, geodetical, gladsomest, gladstones, goaltender, godfathers, godparents, headstrong, intaglioed, isografted, moderating, negotiated, objurgated, originated, orthograde, outbragged, outcharged, outdragged, outlaughed, outreading, oxygenated, propagated, prorogated, readopting, retrograde, soundstage, subrogated, surrogated, tobogganed.
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