"senility" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /səˈnɪlɪti/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-senility.wav [Southern-England] Forms: senilities [plural]
Rhymes: -ɪlɪti Etymology: senile + -ity Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|senile|ity}} senile + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} senility (countable and uncountable, plural senilities)
  1. (chiefly uncountable) The bodily and mental deterioration associated with old age: Synonym of senescence. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Age
    Sense id: en-senility-en-noun-Ztk4Lsg1 Disambiguation of Age: 42 26 31 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 84 7 9 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 88 6 6 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 84 11 5
  2. (chiefly uncountable) The losing of memory and reason due to senescence. Tags: uncountable Translations (the losing of memory and reason): kabac'hded (Breton), сенилност (senilnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), изкуфялост (izkufjalost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), senilitat [feminine] (Catalan), 痴呆 (chidai) (Chinese), sénilité (French), Senilität [feminine] (German), γεροντική άνοια (gerontikí ánoia) [feminine] (Greek), 耄碌 (mōroku) (Japanese), изветреаност (izvetreanost) [feminine] (Macedonian), излапеност (izlapenost) [feminine] (Macedonian), сенилност (senilnost) [feminine] (Macedonian), Ellaschwakheit [feminine] (Plautdietsch), starczość [feminine] (Polish), senilidade [feminine] (Portuguese), senilitate [feminine] (Romanian), ста́рость (stárostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), дря́хлость (drjáxlostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), senilidad [feminine] (Spanish), senilitet [common-gender] (Swedish), kalīanan (Tausug)
    Sense id: en-senility-en-noun-FvMJ2eDN Disambiguation of 'the losing of memory and reason': 5 91 4
  3. (countable, archaic) An elderly, senile person. Tags: archaic, countable Translations (an elderly, senile person): старец (starec) [masculine] (Bulgarian)
    Sense id: en-senility-en-noun-3PBtlVi3 Disambiguation of 'an elderly, senile person': 5 2 93
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: sinility Related terms: senile [adjective]

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.