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Synonyms for Dotage:
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n.
• age • dotage • insanity- Mental Disorders ,
- Psychoses ,
- insaneness ,
- irresponsibility ,
- mental disorder ,
- psychosis ,
- senselessness ,
- witlessness .
Other synonyms:
- Caducity .
Other relevant words:
- Alzheimer's Disease ,
- Anility ,
- Driveling ,
- Idiotism ,
- Senectitude ,
- advanced age ,
- advanced years ,
- age ,
- age of retirement ,
- baby ,
- babyhood ,
- cherish ,
- childishness ,
- climacteric ,
- cocker ,
- cosset ,
- credulity ,
- credulousness ,
- debilitation ,
- debility ,
- decline ,
- declining years ,
- decrepitude ,
- eld ,
- elderliness ,
- enervation ,
- fatuity ,
- feebleness ,
- feel ,
- fill ,
- fondle ,
- fondness ,
- frustrate ,
- fumble ,
- golden years ,
- grand climacteric ,
- gratify ,
- gray hairs ,
- handle ,
- hold ,
- idiocy ,
- imbecility ,
- impair ,
- incapacity ,
- indulge ,
- infatuation ,
- infirmity ,
- insanity ,
- lick ,
- longevity ,
- mishandle ,
- mollycoddle ,
- old age ,
- oldness ,
- overcredulity ,
- overindulge ,
- pamper ,
- psychopathy ,
- puerility ,
- rash conviction ,
- ricketiness ,
- ripe age ,
- senescence ,
- senile dementia ,
- senile psychosis ,
- senilism ,
- shove ,
- simplicity ,
- spoil ,
- squeeze ,
- superannuation ,
- time of life ,
- trustfulness ,
- vitiate ,
- weakness ,
- wishful thinking ,
- years .
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What are the hypernyms for Dotage?
A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.
Other hypernyms:
decay, decline, deterioration, old age, senescence.
What are the hyponyms for Dotage?
Hyponyms are more specific words categorized under a broader term, known as a hypernym.
hyponyms for dotage (as nouns)
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time
old age, eld, age, years, geezerhood.
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time
What are the opposite words for dotage?
Dotage is a state of decline in mental and physical abilities often associated with old age. To describe the opposite of dotage, one may use the antonyms vigor, vitality, or youthfulness. These words indicate the presence of energy, strength, and health, which are often associated with younger age groups. Another antonym of dotage is acuity, which refers to sharpness and clarity of mental or physical abilities. In contrast to dotage, acuity indicates a high level of alertness and awareness. Other antonyms of dotage could include clarity, lucidity, and acuteness, highlighting the presence of a sharp and clear mind.
What are the antonyms for Dotage?
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n.
• feebleness, old age
Usage examples for Dotage
Am I blind or in my dotage?
"The Literary Sense"
She was a Southern woman, about whom there was a vague reputation of wealth inherited from an old man, whom she had married in his dotage, and of a very luxurious life which had commenced so soon after the funeral as to create some scandal.
"Wives and Widows; or The Broken Life"
My dotage, Fairfax, is come very suddenly upon me; and neither you, nor any one of the spirited fellows, whose company I used to delight in, can despise me half so much as I despise myself-A plebeian!
"Anna St. Ives"
Famous quotes with Dotage
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We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation on the next. It is awful to see the lean hands of dotage making a coffer of the grave.
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From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.
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I tend to keep books of art more than anything else now. I'm interested in visual things. And astronomy books. Things you can look at over and over and over again and see something new. … My notions of God and the universe have always been too small. And limited by language. So now I'm looking at picture books. My children say I'm just beginning to enter my dotage: can't read, just looks at picture books.
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