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Dotage
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What's The Definition Of Dotage?
[n] mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
Synonyms | Synonyms for Dotage: second childhood | senility Related Terms | Find terms related to Dotage: advanced age | advanced years | age | age of retirement | an incurable disease | anility | blind faith | caducity | childishness | credulity | credulousness | debility | decline | decline of life | declining years | decrepitude | disposition to believe | dotardism | ease of belief | eld | elderliness | feebleness | fondness | green old age | gross credulity | hale old age | hoary age | infatuation | infirm old age | infirmity | infirmity of age | longevity | old age | oldness | overcredulity | overcredulousness | overopenness to conviction | overtrustfulness | pensionable age | rash conviction | ricketiness | ripe old age | second childhood | senectitude | senile debility | senile dementia | senile psychosis | senile weakness | senilism | senility | senior citizenship | superannuation | the downward slope | the golden years | trustfulness | uncritical acceptance | uncriticalness | unquestioning belief | unripe acceptation | unskepticalness | unsuspectingness | unsuspiciousness | vale of years | white hairs | will to believe | willingness to believe | wishful belief | wishful thinking See Also | age | eld | geezerhood | old age | years Dotage In Webster's Dictionary \Do"tage\, n. [From {Dote}, v. i.]
1. 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.
Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and
the dotage of Greek literature. --Macaulay.
2. Foolish utterance; drivel.
The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. --
Milton.
3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
The dotage of the nation on presbytery. -- Bp.
Burnet.
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