'Dotage' definitions:
Definition of 'dotage'
(from WordNet)
noun
Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations [syn: dotage, second childhood, senility]
Definition of 'Dotage'
From: GCIDE
- Dotage \Do"tage\, n. [From Dote, v. i.]
- 1. Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage. [1913 Webster]
- Capable of distinguishing between the infancy and the dotage of Greek literature. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Foolish utterance; drivel. [1913 Webster]
- The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. -- Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection. [1913 Webster]
- The dotage of the nation on presbytery. -- Bp. Burnet. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'dotage'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advanced age,
- advanced years,
- age,
- age of retirement,
- an incurable disease,
- anility,
- blind faith,
- caducity,
- childishness,
- credulity,
- credulousness,
- debility,
- decline,
- decline of life,
- declining years,
- decrepitude,
- disposition to believe,
- dotardism,
- ease of belief,
- eld,
- elderliness,
- feebleness,
- fondness,
- green old age,
- gross credulity,
- hale old age,
- hoary age,
- infatuation,
- infirm old age,
- infirmity,
- infirmity of age,
- longevity,
- old age,
- oldness,
- overcredulity,
- overcredulousness,
- overopenness to conviction,
- overtrustfulness,
- pensionable age,
- rash conviction,
- ricketiness,
- ripe old age,
- second childhood,
- senectitude,
- senile debility,
- senile dementia,
- senile psychosis,
- senile weakness,
- senilism,
- senility,
- senior citizenship,
- superannuation,
- the downward slope,
- the golden years,
- trustfulness,
- uncritical acceptance,
- uncriticalness,
- unquestioning belief,
- unripe acceptation,
- unskepticalness,
- unsuspectingness,
- unsuspiciousness,
- vale of years,
- white hairs,
- will to believe,
- willingness to believe,
- wishful belief,
- wishful thinking