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Перевод: senility

[существительное]
старость ; дряхлость

Тезаурус:

1. They preferred to contrast the typically active and widely powerful young old with the pathetic senility of old old age, the "Crooked Age", summed up by Shakespeare as "second childish= sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.
2. The thoughts of madness and senility frightened her.
3. Roget's Thesaurus , a classic English text which seeks to arrange words "according to the ideas which they express", describes old age by such nouns as "senility, grey hairs, climacteric, declining years, decrepitude, hoary age, caducity, superannuation, second childhood, dotage, decline of life" and, even more graphically, by the adjectives "senile, run to seed, declining, waning, past one's prime, grey, hoary, venerable, time-worn, antiquated, doddering, decrepit, superannuated, stricken in years, wrinkled, having one foot in the grave."
4. But recent reality had also taken its toll: his father's lamented death, his guitar teacher's suicide, and that of a cousin; the presence of his grandfather Klinitsky-Klein, now reduced unhappily to senility in his mother's house (at which he would surprise Leonard by encountering him suddenly, in odd moments of clarity, saying, "Oh, yes, you're the writer, aren't you?") created other pressures.
5. Miss Cress watched her, not for any signs of betrayal but wondering if this might be the vague mind, the senility that her daughter had stressed, this symptomatic breaking-off of sentences.
6. Our Young Old Age they saw as Senility; our Old Old Age was beyond the focus of their conventional wisdom.
7. For instance, while brain cells do die and are not replaced, their loss is not an explanation for senility.
8. "What's senility?" said Philip.
9. Living in the troubled times of the late fourth and early fifth centuries, St Augustine regarded the Christian era as the age of senility and decay that would lead to the seventh age when time would end, although he was careful not to forecast a definite date for this.
10. From the middle years onwards the phases were Manhood, under the control of Mars, Old Age under Jupiter, and finally Senility under Saturn.
11. A common image of health in old age is one associated with the loss of energy and personal drive, significantly greater need for rest, long and increasing periods of sickness, permanent experience of pain and discomfort, increasing immobility, the gradual loss of personal control and responsibility, the onset of incontinence, with the resulting loss of dignity and self-respect, increasing confusion, and ultimately the most feared condition of all, senility.
12. "Senility is known to set in a good deal earlier in many cases."
13. Senility, that's what it is."