old age

Old Age

See also age; antiquity; fossils.

anecdotage

old age, when a person may be prone to regale others with anecdotes about his past. [A humorous blend of anecdote and dotage.]

anility

the condition of behaving like an old woman, used especially of men. Cf. senility.

caducity

decrepit old age; senility.

gerascophobia

the fear of growing old.

geratology

the study of the decline of life, as in old age. — geratologic, geratological, geratologous, adj.

geriatrics

1. the science dealing with the diseases, debilities, and care of aged persons.
2. the study of the physical process and problems of aging; gerontology. — geriatrie, adj. — geriatrist, geriatrician, geriatry, n.

gerocomy

gerontology.

gerodontics

a dental specialty concerned with the care and treatment of the dental problems of the aged. — gerodontist, n.

geromorphism

the condition of appearing older than one is.

gerontology

the branch of science that studies aging and the special problems of the aged. Also called gerocomy. — gerontologist, n. — gerontological, adj.

nonagenarianism

the state of being in one’s nineties. — nonagenarian, n., adj. — nonagenary, adj.

nostology

Medicine, Obsolete, the study of senility.

octogenarianism

the state of being in one’s eighties. — octogenarian, n., adj. — octogenary, adj.

opsimathy

Rare.
1. a late education.
2. the process of acquiring education late in life.

senicide

the killing off of the old men in a tribe. — senicidal, adj.

senility

1. the state or quality of being old, especially, being afflicted with the infirmity of body and mind that sometimes comes with old age.
2. Informal. a condition of weakness of mind and body, usually associated with advanced age, characterized by the inability to remember simple, recent events, general confusion and bewilderment, and increasing debility. Cf. anility. — senile, adj.

septuagenarianism

the state of being in one’s seventies. — septuagenarian n., adj. — septuagenary, adj.

Thesaurus

Noun

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old age - a late time of life; "old age is not for sissies"; "he's showing his years"; "age hasn't slowed him down at all"; "a beard white with eld"; "on the brink of geezerhood" eld, geezerhood, years, age time of life - a period of time during which a person is normally in a particular life state mid-sixties, sixties - the time of life between 60 and 70 mid-seventies, seventies - the time of life between 70 and 80 mid-eighties, eighties - the time of life between 80 and 90 mid-nineties, nineties - the time of life between 90 and 100 dotage, second childhood, senility - mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations

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old age

noun declining years, age, senility, advancing years, dotage, Third Age, senescence, eld (archaic), elderliness, agedness, autumn or evening of your life They worry about how they will support themselves in their old age.
youth, childhood, adolescence, early life, immaturity, young days, juvenescence

Quotations
"I am grown peaceful as old age tonight."
"I regret a little, would change still less" [Robert Browning Andrea del Sarto]
"Do not go gentle into that good night,"
"Old age should burn and rave at close of day;"
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light" [Dylan Thomas Do not go gentle into that good night]
"Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that happen to a man" [Leon Trotsky Diary in Exile]
"sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything" [William Shakespeare As You Like It]

Translations

old age n → vecchiaia
in one's old age → nella vecchiaia