senility

IPA: sʌnˈɪɫʌti

(chiefly uncountable) Senescence; the bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age.
(chiefly uncountable) The losing of memory and reason due to senescence.
(countable, archaic) An elderly, senile person.

Examples of "senility" in Sentences

Ah well as Forrest might say senility is as senility does.
Replace and repeal ain't gonna happen but apperantly senility is stop the nonsense
If senility is beginning to cloud your judgement, refrain from public forums. ready99
He was never one to act in senility or say things which caused us to doubt his senses.
And I think that's what years ago we referred to as senility or someone's losing their memory.
Conversely, much not all—there are biological factors involved of what we call senility is a fatal end-stage form of psychological and spiritual immaturity.
Later he took up the study of the flora of the human intestine and developed a theory that senility is due to poisoning of the body by the products of certain of these bacteria.
Many people greatly misuse the word senility when wanting to convey the idea that the aged individual that they are referring to has memory loss, confusion etc., when the appropriate word is dementia.