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dotage

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English

Etymology

FromMiddle Englishdotage, fromdoten(“to dote”) +-age; equivalent todote +‎-age.

Pronunciation

(General American)IPA^(key): /ˈdoʊtɪd͡ʒ/
(Received Pronunciation)IPA^(key): /ˈdəʊtɪdʒ/
- Audio(Southern England): (file)

Noun

dotage (countable anduncountable,pluraldotages)

Decline injudgment and othercognitive functions, associated with aging;senility.
- 1840 April –1841 November,Charles Dickens, “Chapter the First”, inThe Old Curiosity Shop. A Tale. […], volume I, London:Chapman and Hall, […], published1841,→OCLC,page41:
  "More care!" said the old man in a shrill voice,[…] there were in his face marks of deep and anxious thought which convinced me that he could not be, as I had been at first inclined to suppose, in a state ofdotage or imbecility.
Fondness orattentiveness, especially to anexcessive degree.
- 1598–1599 (first performance),William Shakespeare,Much Adoe about Nothing. […], quarto edition, London: […] V[alentine] S[immes] forAndrew Wise, andWilliam Aspley, published1600,→OCLC, [Act II, scene iii],signature D2, verso:
  Claudio And ſhe is exceeding wiſe.
  Prince In euery thing but in louing Benedicke.[…] I would ſhee had beſtowed thisdotage on mee,[…]
Foolishutterance(s);drivel.
- 1642 April,John Milton,An Apology for Smectymnuus; republished inA Complete Collection of the Historical, Political, and Miscellaneous Works of John Milton, […], volume I, Amsterdam [actually London:s.n.],1698,→OCLC,page193:
  No leſs are they out of the way in Philoſophy, peſtring their heads with the ſapleſsdotages of oldParis andSalamanca.

Synonyms

(loss of mental acuity associated with aging):second childhood

Derived terms

Translations

senility

Bulgarian:изкуфяване n(izkufjavane),сенилност (bg) f(senilnost)
Chinese:
Mandarin:老耄 (zh)(lǎomào),老迷糊(lǎo míhú),失智症 (zh)(shīzhìzhèng)
Czech:senilnost f
Dutch:seniliteit (nl),dementie (nl),
Finnish:vanhuudenhöperöys
French:débilité sénile f,sénilité (fr) f
Galician:senilidade (gl) f
German:Senilität (de) f,Altersschwäche (de) f
Greek:ξεμώραμα (el) n(xemórama),παλιμπαιδισμός (el) m(palimpaidismós)
Hungarian:időskor (hu),öregkor (hu),vénség (hu),szenilitás (hu), (szellemi (hu)(literally“mental”))elgyengülés (hu),leépülés (hu),leépültség,elgyengültség,gyengeség (hu)
Japanese:耄碌 (ja)(もうろく, mōroku),もうろく(mōroku),認知症 (ja)(にんちしょう, ninchishō)
Maori:pēperekōutanga
Mongolian:зөнөглөх (mn)(zönöglöx)
Plautdietsch:Ellaschwakheit f
Polish:zdziecinnienie n
Russian:ста́рческое слабоу́мие n(stárčeskoje slaboúmije),ста́рческий мара́зм m(stárčeskij marázm)
Spanish:senilidad (es),chochez (es) f
Turkish:ihtiyarlık (tr) sg

Anagrams

dogate,goated,togaed

Middle English

Etymology

Fromdoten +‎-age.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /dɔːˈtaːd͡ʒ(ə)/,/ˈdɔːtad͡ʒ(ə)/

Noun

dotage (uncountable)(Late Middle English)

Behaviour that is stupid or ill-advised;ridiculousness orinsanity:
1. Ill-thought orfatuitous love or romantic feelings.
2. Weakening of the mind due to age;dotage.
Disintegration,rotting, orcollapsing.

Descendants

English:dotage

References

“dōtāǧe,n.”, inMED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.:University of Michigan,2007, retrieved2018-08-12.

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