How do you use Senility in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like dotage or years, plus the exact meaning.
Senility in a sentence
Senility meaning
- The bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age: Synonym of senescence.
- The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.
- An elderly, senile person.
Using Senility
- The main meaning on this page is: The bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age: Synonym of senescence. | The losing of memory and reason due to senescence. | An elderly, senile person.
- Useful related words include: dotage, second childhood, old age, years.
- In the example corpus, senility often appears in combinations such as: senility and.
Context around Senility
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.3 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 6 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Senility
- In this selection, "senility" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.3 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, near, prevent, premature, serve and onset stand out and add context to how "senility" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include age comes senility and and near senility serve as. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "senility" sits close to words such as aami, aat and abada, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with senility
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
With age comes senility. (4 words)
His brief life consisted chiefly of a passage from prolonged infancy to premature senility. (14 words)
Now bordering on senility, the wizard is still a force to be reckoned with. (14 words)
Despite Kim Jong Un’s public displays of friendliness with US President Donald Trump, in 2017, North Korea infamously called Trump “mentally deranged” and a “dotard”, an archaic term for an elderly person suffering from senility. (36 words)
Dementia in the elderly was called senile dementia or senility, and viewed as a normal and somewhat inevitable aspect of growing old, rather than as being caused by any specific diseases. (31 words)
Instead, we should shun the idea of serving in government until senility, and, by a cultural change, this will influence justices to retire of their own free will. (28 words)
Example sentences (12)
Joe Biden’s political utility and near senility serve as exemptions for his often sexist, racist, and creepy riffs.
Instead, we should shun the idea of serving in government until senility, and, by a cultural change, this will influence justices to retire of their own free will.
Biden’s drug dosage to prevent senility onset might be moderate, but that’s the only thing moderate about him.
Despite Kim Jong Un’s public displays of friendliness with US President Donald Trump, in 2017, North Korea infamously called Trump “mentally deranged” and a “dotard”, an archaic term for an elderly person suffering from senility.
His brief life consisted chiefly of a passage from prolonged infancy to premature senility.
I pass the bathing-room where freshly-washed people, some of them young but damaged, others gaga with senility, are swaddled like babies in big white towels.
With age comes senility.
At least one chronicler claimed that fear of senility or other debilitating diseases of old age was also a contributing factor.
Dementia in the elderly was called senile dementia or senility, and viewed as a normal and somewhat inevitable aspect of growing old, rather than as being caused by any specific diseases.
From the time of his coronation, all real power was transferred to Philip, as his father slowly descended into senility.
Gladstone died on 19 May 1898 at Hawarden Castle, Hawarden, aged 88. The cause of death is officially recorded as "Syncope, Senility".
Now bordering on senility, the wizard is still a force to be reckoned with.
Common combinations with senility
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: