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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | old age |
| Synonyms: | age, anility, decline, dotage, feebleness, second childhood, senectitude, senescence |
| Antonyms: | adolescence, childhood, infancy, youth |
| Main Entry: | age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of animate existence |
| Synonyms: | adolescence, adulthood, boyhood, childhood, dotage, elderliness, girlhood, infancy, life, lifetime, majority, maturity, middle age, milestone, old age, senility, seniority, wear and tear, youth |
| Notes: | epoch applies to the beginning of a new period marked by radical changes and new developments - while era applies to the entire period; age denotes a period identified with some dominant personality or characteristic and period pertains to any portion of time |
| Main Entry: | decline |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lessening |
| Synonyms: | abatement, backsliding, comedown, cropper, decay, decrepitude, degeneracy, degeneration, descent, deterioration, devolution, diminution, dissolution, dive, downfall, downgrade, downturn, drop, dwindling, ebb, ebbing, enfeeblement, failing, failure, fall, falling off, flop, lapse, on the skids, pratfall, recession, relapse, senility, skids, slump, wane, waning, weakening, worsening |
| Notes: | one declines (or accepts) something that is offered; one refuses (or agrees) to accept something offered |
| Antonyms: | betterment, improvement, increase, rise |
| Main Entry: | dotage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feebleness, old age |
| Synonyms: | advanced age, decrepitude, elderliness, fatuity, imbecility, infirmity, second childhood, senectitude, senility, weakness |
| Antonyms: | childhood, strength, youngness, youth, youthfulness |
| Main Entry: | feebleness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of strength; ineffectiveness |
| Synonyms: | debility, decrepitude, delicacy, disease, effeteness, enervation, etiolation, exhaustion, flimsiness, frailness, frailty, inability, inadequacy, incapacity, incompetence, ineffectualness, infirmity, infirmness, insignificance, insufficiency, lameness, languor, lassitude, malaise, senility, sickliness, unhealthiness, weakness |
| Antonyms: | ability, effectiveness, health, heartiness, power, soundness, strength |
| Main Entry: | old age |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | period of being elderly |
| Synonyms: | advancing years, age, agedness, autumn of life, caducity, debility, declining years, decrepitude, dotage, elderliness, evening of life, feebleness, geriatrics, golden age, golden years, infirmity, latter part of animate life, longevity, oldness, retirement age, second childhood, senectitude, senescence, senility, seniority, winter of life, years |
| Antonyms: | adolescence, childhood, infancy, youth |
| Main Entry: | weakness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | defect, proneness |
| Synonyms: | Achilles heel, appetite*, blemish, chink in armor, debility, decrepitude, deficiency, delicacy, enervation, failing, faintness, fault, feebleness, flaw, fondness, fragility, frailty, gap, impairment, imperfection, impotence, inclination, inconstancy, indecision, infirmity, instability, invalidity, irresolution, lack, languor, lapse, liking, passion, penchant, powerlessness, predilection, proclivity, prostration, senility, shortcoming, soft spot, sore point, taste*, vice, vitiation, vulnerability |
| Antonyms: | strength, strong point |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | years |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age; old age |
| Synonyms: | agedness, caducity, dotage, elderliness, generation, lifespan, lifetime, oldness, senescence, senility |
| Antonyms: | youth |
| Main Entry: | caducity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feebleness |
| Synonyms: | age, lapse, senility |
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