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senescence

/sɪˈnɛ.səns/
/səˈnɛ.səns/

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From senescent + -ence.

noun senescences

uncountable, usually The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age. Organized shuffleboard has always filled me with dread. Everything about it suggests infirm senescence and death: it’s like it’s a game played on the skin of a void and the rasp of the sliding puck is the sound of that skin getting abraded away bit by bit.
Similar: oldhood, senectitude, vetustity, age, chair days, codgerhood, eld, elderliness, fogeydom, geezerdom, golden years, old age
uncountable, usually Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage. 2018, University of Edinburgh, "Liver Study Offers Insights into Hard-to-treat Diseases" (9 March 2018), Drug Discovery & Development. Tests in mice found that inducing senescence in bile duct cells - mimicking the process seen in human bile duct disease - led to liver scarring and damage of liver f
uncountable, usually Old age; accumulated damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
uncountable, usually Fruit senescence, leading to ripening of fruit.
uncountable, usually, of a cell Condition when the cell ceases to divide.

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noun gerontology: old age

Italiano	senescenza
Ελληνικά	γήρας gíras

noun biology: the state or process of aging

Español	senectud, senescencia
Português	senescência, senectude
Deutsch	Alterungsprozess
Italiano	senescenza
Ελληνικά	γήρας gíras, γηρασμός girasmós
Русский	старе́ние starénije

noun cell biology: ceasing to divide by mitosis

Ελληνικά	γηρασμός girasmós

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@misc{senescence_2026,
  title = {senescence},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/senescence},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}