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Definitions: Senility |
SenilityNoun1. Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations. 2. The state of being senile. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "senility" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1791. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Health | Old age; the physical and mental deterioration associated with old age. (references) |
Medicine | The general state resulting from the mental and physical weakness and enfeeblement which are the accompaniment of old age. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: SenilitySynonyms: dotage (n), second childhood (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. |
Oldness | Noun: oldness; Adjective: age, antiquity; cobwebs of antiquity. maturity; decline, decay; senility. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Senility |
| English words defined with "senility": Caducity. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "senility": Physician Impairment ♦ sailor's skin, sailors'skin ♦ Vitreous Detachment. (references) |
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Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Senility" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Senility" is used about 46 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% | 46 | 50,285 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
senility | 39 |
also care include may nursing plan senility their | 4 |
prayer senility | 4 |
dog senility | 3 |
senility symptom | 3 |
dog in senility | 2 |
senility sign | 2 |
cat senility | 2 |
canine senility | 2 |
canine cognitive dysfunction senility | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "senility"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vjetëri, pleqëri (age, anility, Eld, old age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | خرف (become senile, childishness, divagation, doddering, dotage, ramble, rambling, rant, rave, senile), الشيخوخة (old age), شيخوخة (aging, caducity, old age, sunset). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | старост (adulthood, age, anility, anno, anno domini, antiquity, old age), сенилност, грохналост (decrepitude), изкуфялост. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stařeckost. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | senilitet (decrepitude, dotage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | seniliteit, senilitas, ouderdom (age, old age). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | پیری (Age), کهولت , سالخوردگی , خرف بودن . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vanhuudenheikkous (decrepitude). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | sénilité. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Senilität (dotage), Greisenalter, Altersschwäche (decrepitude, dotage, infirmity, infirmity (of old age), senile decay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | γήρασ (senescence). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | יש ות (oldness), זק ות (dotage, old age), ס יליות. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szenilitás (anility, caducity, dotage). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pikun (senile), kepikunan. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | senilit (caducity, doting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 老衰 (senile decay). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ろうすい (leakage, senile decay), ろうれい (advanced age), もうろく (second childhood). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shenneraght (antiquity, old age, Presbyterianism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | enilitysay senilidade (anility, caducity, consenescence, dot-and-dash code). (various references) senilitate, decrepitudine (decrepitness, decrepitude). (various references) старость (age, anility, anno, grey hairs, old age, the lees of life), дряхлость (anility, caducity, infirmity). (various references) starost (age, old age), senilnost (caducity). (various references) senilidad (anility). (various references) senilitet (dotage), ålderdomssvaghet (infirmity). (various references) ความชรา. (various references) yaşlılık (age, old age, senescence, senile), ihtiyarlık (decrepitude, dotage, old age, senescence), güçsüzlük (disability, feebleness, impotence, impotency, ineffectualness, infirmity, shakiness, weakness), dermansızlık (atony, debility, decrepitude, exhaustion, sinking), bunaklık (caducity, dementia, dotage, second childhood). (various references) старезність (age, anility, caducity, decrepitude), глибока старість, згасання (dying). (various references) tình trạng suy yếu vì tuổi gi , tình trạng lão suy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Senility" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: seidlitz, senelity, senerity, seriality, swnility. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "senility" (pronounced suni"lutē) |
| 5 | -i" l u t ē | ability, acceptability, accessibility, adaptability, admissibility, advisability, affordability, agility, amiability, applicability, availability, believability, capability, civility, comparability, compatibility, comprehensibility, convertibility, credibility, culpability, debility, deductibility, deniability, dependability, desirability, disability, docility, ductility, durability, electability, eligibility, enforceability, facility, fallibility, feasibility, fertility, flammability, flexibility, fragility, futility, gentility, gullibility, hostility, humility, immobility, impossibility, inability, inaccessibility, incivility, incompatibility, indestructibility, inevitability, infallibility, infertility, inflexibility, instability, invincibility, invisibility, invulnerability, irresponsibility, irritability, legibility, liability, malleability, maneuverability, marketability, miscibility, mobility, motility, nobility, nonutility, palatability, permeability, plausibility, portability, possibility, predictability, probability, profitability, readability, reliability, respectability, responsibility, sensibility, stability, sterility, suitability, survivability, susceptibility, sustainability, tranquility, transferability, unavailability, unpredictability, unreliability, utility, variability, versatility, viability, virility, visibility, volatility, vulnerability. |
| 4 | -l u t ē | abnormality, accountability, actuality, banality, bestiality, bisexuality, brutality, causality, centrality, collegiality, commonality, conditionality, confidentiality, congeniality, constitutionality, credulity, criminality, criticality, cyclicality, dimensionality, duality, equality, eventuality, extraterritoriality, fatality, fidelity, finality, formality, frivolity, frugality, functionality, generality, geniality, heterosexuality, homosexuality, hospitality, illegality, immorality, immortality, impartiality, impersonality, incredulity, individuality, inequality, infidelity, informality, instrumentality, irrationality, legality, lethality, liberality, locality, materiality, mentality, modality, morality, mortality, municipality, musicality, mutuality, nationality, neutrality, normality, originality, partiality, personality, plurality, polity, practicality, principality, proportionality, punctuality, quality, rationality, reality, seasonality, sensuality, sentimentality, sexuality, speciality, spirituality, technicality, theatricality, tonality, totality, triviality, universality, unreality, venality, vitality. |
| 3 | -u t ē | absurdity, acidity, activity, acuity, adversity, affinity, aggressivity, alacrity, alkalinity, ambiguity, amenity, amity, analyticity, animosity, annuity, anonymity, antiquity, anxiety, atrocity, audacity, austerity, authenticity, authority, barbarity, biodiversity, brevity, calamity, capacity, captivity, cavity, celebrity, charity, chastity, clarity, commodity, community, complexity, complicity, conductivity, conformity, congruity, connectivity, continuity, creativity, crotchety, curiosity, deformity, deity, density, depravity, deputy, dexterity, dignity, discontinuity, disparity, dissimilarity, disunity, diversity, divinity, domesticity, duplicity, eccentricity, elasticity, electricity, enmity, enormity, entity, equanimity, equity, eternity, ethnicity, exclusivity, expressivity, extremity, falsity, familiarity, Felicity, femininity, ferocity, festivity, fluidity, fraternity, generosity, gratuity, gravity, heredity, heterogeneity, hilarity, homogeneity, humanity, humidity, hyperactivity, hypersensitivity, identity, illiquidity, immaturity, immunity, impropriety, impunity, impurity, inactivity, incapacity, incongruity, indemnity, indignity, inequity, inferiority, infinity, infirmity, ingenuity, inhumanity, insanity, insecurity, insensitivity, insularity, integrity, intensity, irregularity, laity, laxity, levity, liquidity, lividity, longevity, majority, masculinity, maternity, maturity, mediocrity, mendacity, minority, modernity, monstrosity, morbidity, multiplicity, nativity, necessity, negativity, Nonconformity, nonentity, notoriety, nudity, obesity, objectivity, obscenity, obscurity, oddity, opacity, opportunity, overcapacity, oversensitivity, parity, particularity, passivity, paternity, paucity, peculiarity, perpetuity, perplexity, perversity, piety, polarity, pomposity, popularity, posterity, priority, probity, proclivity, productivity, profanity, progressivity, promiscuity, propensity, propriety, prosperity, proximity, publicity, purity, quantity, radioactivity, rapidity, rarity, reactivity, receptivity, reciprocity, reflexivity, regularity, relativity, religiosity, retroactivity, rickety, rigidity, salinity, sanctity, sanity, scarcity, security, selectivity, seniority, sensitivity, serendipity, serenity, severity, similarity, simplicity, sincerity, sobriety, society, solemnity, solidarity, solidity, sorority, specificity, spontaneity, stupidity, subjectivity, superconductivity, superfluidity, superiority, supermajority, surety, temerity, tenacity, timidity, toxicity, Trinity, turbidity, ubiquity, unanimity, unfamiliarity, uniformity, unity, university, unpopularity, uppity, validity, vanity, variety, varsity, velocity, velvety, veracity, Verity, vicinity, virginity, virtuosity, viscosity, voracity, vulgarity. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-i-i-l-n-s-t-y" | |
-1 letter: liniest. | |
-2 letters: elints, enlist, inlets, instil, lenity, linsey, listen, lysine, seniti, sileni, silent, tinily, tinsel. | |
-3 letters: elint, inlet, inset, intis, islet, istle, lenis, liens, lines, liney, lints, linty, lysin, neist, nisei, nites, senti, silty, stein, stile, style, styli, tiles, tines, tynes, yetis. | |
-4 letters: inly, inti, isle, leis, lens, lent, lest, lets, leys, lien, lies. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-i-i-l-n-s-t-y" | |
+1 letter: tensility. | |
+2 letters: pristinely, sinisterly. | |
+3 letters: inestimably, insatiately, insistently, intensively, intrusively, kittenishly, resiliently, sensibility, sensitively, stellifying. | |
+4 letters: anelasticity, antiepilepsy, blisteringly, disjointedly, essentiality, hesitatingly, inappositely, indiscreetly, inelasticity, infectiously, intestinally, iridescently, laryngitides, licentiously, lysogenicity, lysolecithin, omnisciently, polyneuritis, prehensility, simultaneity, sufficiently, transitively, unisexuality, universality. | |
+5 letters: analyticities, antisexuality, bisectionally, clandestinity, defensibility, disjunctively, disobediently, disquietingly, distinctively, distressingly, equidistantly, etymologising, existentially, expansibility, extensibility, extrinsically, hypersalinity, impersonality, inexhaustibly, infeasibility, inquisitively, inscriptively, insensibility, insensitively, instinctively, instructively, insusceptibly, intensionally, interestingly, lymphadenitis, lysolecithins, mensurability, ministerially, proselytising, proselytizing, reasonability, reminiscently, residentially, semitonically, sinterability, spondylitises, tiddledywinks, vertiginously. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 6E 69 6C 69 74 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . -. .. .-.. .. - -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01101110 01101001 01101100 01101001 01110100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e n i l i t y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 006E 0069 006C 0069 0074 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5371807578758691 |
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