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41age — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Old age Nouns 1. age, years, oldness; life expectancy, life span; longevity, length of years; gerontology, geriatrics; gerontocracy; ageism. 2. (maturity) adulthood, man or womanhood, maturity; legal or… …
42old age — I (Roget s IV) n. Syn. seniority, dotage, infirmity; see age 2 , senility . II (Roget s 3 Superthesaurus) n. retirement age, senescence, declining years, *winter of one s life, enfeeblement, dotage, senility. To take in sail. Emerson. To be left… …
43Age — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Age >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 age age Sgm: N 1 oldness oldness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 old age old age advanced age golden years Sgm: N 1 senility senility senescence Sgm …
44Imbecility — (Roget s Thesaurus) Folly. < N PARAG:Imbecility >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 want of intelligence want of intelligence &c. 498 want of intellect &c. 450 Sgm: N 1 shadowness shadowness silliness foolishness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 imbecility… …
45Insanity — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Insanity >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 disordered reason disordered reason disordered intellect Sgm: N 1 diseased mind diseased mind unsound mind abnormal mind Sgm: N 1 derangement derangement unsoundness GRP: N 2 Sgm …
46dote — [13] English may have borrowed dote from Middle Dutch doten ‘be silly’, but its ultimate origins are not known. To begin with it meant ‘be silly’ in English too (a sense now mainly preserved in its various derivatives), and ‘show excessive… …
47lunacy — n 1. insanity, insaneness, madness, derangement, Psychiatry. dementia, dementedness; distraction, disorientation, unbalance, unsoundness; mental illness, loss of reason, unsound mind, diseased mind; craziness, Sl. kookiness, Inf. nuttiness,… …
48dote — [13] English may have borrowed dote from Middle Dutch doten ‘be silly’, but its ultimate origins are not known. To begin with it meant ‘be silly’ in English too (a sense now mainly preserved in its various derivatives), and ‘show excessive… …
49twichild — ˈtwichə̇l(d) noun Etymology: twi + child 1. : one who is in his dotage 2. : dotage * * * twichild /twīˈchīld/ (now dialect) noun A person in his or her second childhood ORIGIN: ↑twi …
50dot|age — «DOH tihj», noun. 1. a weak minded and childish condition that sometimes accompanies old age; senility: »The old man was in his dotage and spent much of his time mumbling to himself. 2. a) excessive love or fondness; foolish affection: »Merlin… …
