Dotage
['dəʊtɪdʒ] or ['dotɪdʒ]
Definition
(noun.) mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations.
Typist: Yvette--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i.) 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.
(v. i.) Foolish utterance; drivel.
(v. i.) Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
Checker: Millicent
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Imbecility, senility, second childhood.
Editor: Stacy
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Imbecility, senility, fatuity, dementedness
ANT:Intelligence, acuteness, judgment, penetration, vigor
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Examples
- And if my grandmamma wasn't in her dotage when she took to insisting on people's retiring to dark apartments, she ought to have been. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- The horror of Pitt Crawley may be imagined, as these reports of his father's dotage reached the most exemplary and correct of gentlemen. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She would come and talk to me about them with an infatuated and persevering dotage, strange to behold in a person not yet twenty-five. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- To remind'; and passed the intervening period in a state of dotage. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
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