dotage

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dotage

/ˈdoʊtɪd͡ʒ/ US
/ˈdəʊtɪdʒ/ UK

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From Middle English dotage, from doten (“to dote”) + -age; equivalent to dote + -age.

noun dotages

countable, uncountable Decline in judgment and other cognitive functions, associated with aging; senility. "More care!" said the old man in a shrill voice, […] there were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state of dotage or imbecility.
Similar: second childhood
countable, uncountable Fondness or attentiveness, especially to an excessive degree. Claudio And ſhe is exceeding wiſe. Prince In euery thing but in louing Benedicke. […] I would ſhee had beſtowed this dotage on mee, […]
countable, uncountable Foolish utterance(s); drivel. No leſs are they out of the way in Philoſophy, peſtring their heads with the ſapleſs dotages of old Paris and Salamanca.

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noun senility

Español	senilidad, chochez
日本語	耄碌 mōroku, もうろく mōroku, 認知症 ninchishō
中文	老耄 lǎomào, 老迷糊 lǎo míhú, 失智症 shīzhìzhèng
Français	débilité sénile, sénilité
Deutsch	Senilität, Altersschwäche
Ελληνικά	ξεμώραμα xemórama, παλιμπαιδισμός palimpaidismós
Русский	ста́рческое слабоу́мие stárčeskoje slaboúmije, ста́рческий мара́зм stárčeskij marázm

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@misc{dotage_2026,
  title = {dotage},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/dotage},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}