senectitude

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senectitude

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From Latin senectus (“aged, old age”), senex (“old”). Compare senescent.

noun

uncountable old age Three-and-twenty years form a large portion of the short life of man,—one-third as nearly as can be expressed in unbroken numbers, of the entire term fixed by the psalmist, and full one-half, if we strike off the twilight of childhood and immature youth, and of senectitude weary of its toils.
Similar: agedness, elderliness, oldness, age, chair days, codgerhood, eld, fogeydom, geezerdom, golden years, old age, oldhood

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@misc{senectitude_2026,
  title = {senectitude},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/senectitude},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}