Senescence

Definitions: Senescence

Senescence

Noun

1. The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age.

2. The property characteristic of old age.

Date "senescence" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1985. (references)

Note: Senescence \Se*nes"cence\, noun. [See Senescent.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Environment	The aging process. Sometimes used to describe lakes or other bodies of water in advanced stages of eutrophication. Also used to describe plants and animals. (references)
Medicine	The bodily and mental state associated with advancing age. Source: European Union. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Senescence

Synonyms: agedness (n), ageing (n), aging (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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Senescence

Specialty definitions using "senescence": Aging, Premature ♦ Erythrocyte Aging ♦ SEASONALLY DISTINCT LAND COVER REGIONS. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Development, Maturation, and Senescence of Neuroendocrine Systems: A Comparative Approach (reference) Healthy Aging for Functional Longevity: Molecular and Cellular Interactions in Senescence (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, V. 928) (reference) Human Senescence : Evolutionary and Biocultural Perspectives (reference) Longevity, Senescence, and the Genome (The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Mental Health and Development) (reference) Senescence and Aging in Plants (American Society of Plant Physiologists Monograph Series) (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"Senescence" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 98.04% of the time. "Senescence" is used about 51 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)	98.04%	50	48,117
Noun (proper)	1.96%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	51	N/A

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Language		Translations for "senescence"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Czech		stárnutí (ageing). (various references)

Danish		senescentia, senescens, alderdomssvaekkelse, alderdom (old age), ælden. (various references)

Dutch		senescentie, senescentia, het oud worden. (various references)

Finnish		ikääntyvät aivot (aging brain, brain senescence). (various references)

French		sénescence. (various references)

German		Vergreisung (ageing, senility). (various references)

Greek		γηρασκείν, γηρασμόσ, γήρασ (senility). (various references)

Hebrew		�"ז�"ק� ות (aging, sinility). (various references)

Italian		senescenza (ageing, aging). (various references)

Korean		노� . (various references)

Manx		shennid (oldness, staleness). (various references)

Pig Latin		enescencesay

Portuguese		senescência (ageing, aging). (various references)

Russian		старение (ageing, consenescence). (various references)

Spanish		senectud (senility). (various references)

Swedish		hjärnans åldrande (aging brain, brain senescence), åldrande hjärna (aging brain, brain senescence). (various references)

Thai		ชรา� าพ. (various references)

Turkish		yaşlılık (age, old age, senile, senility), ihtiyarlık (decrepitude, dotage, old age, senility). (various references)

Ukranian		старіння (ageing, aging, obsolescence, obsoletion). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự gi� yếu. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "senescence": senescences. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Senescence" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: senescense, senesence, sensescence. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "senescence" (pronounced sune"suns)
7	-u n e" s u n s	evanescence, luminescence.
5	-e" s u n s	acquiescence, adolescence, convalescence, essence, obsolescence, phosphorescence, quintessence.
4	-s u n s	absence, beneficence, innocence, licence, license, nuisance, reconnaissance, reminiscence, reticence.
3	-u n s	abeyance, abhorrence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, adherence, admirations, admittance, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appearance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, assurance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, circumference, clairvoyance, Clarence, clearance, coexistence, cognizance, coherence, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, disappearance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, entrance, equivalence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, hindrance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incoherence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, insurance, intelligence, interdependence, interference, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, luminance, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, noninterference, nonviolence, obedience, observance, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, perseverance, persistence, pestilence, petulance, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, preponderance, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, radiance, reappearance, reassurance, recalcitrance, recognizance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, reinsurance, relevance, reliance, reluctance, remembrance, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, teleconference, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, videoconference, vigilance, violence, virulence.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "c-c-e-e-e-e-n-n-s-s"
	-3 letters: essence.
	-4 letters: censes, scenes.
	-5 letters: cense, nenes, scene, sense.
	Words containing the letters "c-c-e-e-e-e-n-n-s-s"
	+1 letter: senescences.
	+2 letters: evanescences.
	+3 letters: juvenescences.
	+4 letters: concretenesses.
	+5 letters: conceitednesses, concertednesses, condescendences, connectednesses, rejuvenescences.
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