Crossword-Solution: SENILITY
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Senility | n. | The quality or state of being senile; old age. |
We have 16 clues for the answer “SENILITY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Aging problem | 1 answer |
| Decay of memory | 1 answer |
| Old-age infirmity | 1 answer |
| senile degeneration | 1 answer |
| the state of being senile | 1 answer |
| Memory malady | 3 answers |
| WANDERING in mind | 4 answers |
| second childhood | 5 answers |
| old age | 11 answers |
| CONFUSED state | 16 answers |
| morbidity | 39 answers |
| dotage | 48 answers |
| dementia | 49 answers |
| Madness? | 63 answers |
| Absurdity | 75 answers |
| Fancy | 122 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with SENILITY (5)
Finally he got to BEING eighty, from thinking it, and he died of senility in the end.) He was in the habit of coming to the spring-house every day to get his morning glass of water and read the papers.
Ebbits seemed sinking back into his senility with the tale untold, and I demanded: "What of thy sons, Moklan and Bidarshik? And why is it that you and your old woman are without meat at the end of your years?" He roused himself as from sleep, and straightened up with an effort.
There are on record six modern cases of early puberty in boys, one of whom died at five with the signs of premature senility; at one year he had shown signs of enlargement of the sexual organs.
One eye, of normal size, dim-brown and misty, bulged to the verge of popping out, and as if from senility wept copiously and continuously.
When the story came to her uncle, a forgetful cavalier of a more hypocritical era, there was a scene, from which Eleanor emerged, subdued but rebellious and indignant, to seek haven with her grandfather who hovered in the country on the near side of senility.
Quotes with SENILITY (3)
And so I ask myself: 'Where are your dreams?' And I shake my head and mutter: 'How the years go by!' And I ask myself again: 'What have you done with those years? Where have you buried your best moments? Have you really lived? Look,' I say to myself, 'how cold it is becoming all over the world!' And more years will pass and behind them will creep grim isolation. Tottering senility will come hobbling, leaning on a crutch, and behind these will come unrelieved boredom and despa…
The most important quality in the man you decide to marry should be the ability to make you laugh. Beauty fades, careers end, money comes and goes, religions change, children grow up and move away, spouses get sick, struggles happen, family members die, senility sets in when your older, but the ability to make you giggle every day is the most precious gift God can give you to get through all of it.
We were no longer, technically, children although in many ways I am quite sure that we were. Childish has become a term of contempt. "Don't be childish, darling." "I hope to Christ I am. Don't be childish yourself." It is possible to be grateful that no one that you would willingly associate with you say, "Be mature. Be well-balanced, be well-adjusted." Africa, being as old as it is, makes all people except the professional invaders and spoilers into children. No one says to …
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (1989–2012).