dotage
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- noun
- /ˈdoʊtɪdʒ/
- Literature
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- As he entered his dotage, he often forgot simple things like where he left his glasses.
Examples
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In a proper world, Perry and Gretchen would have retired to the hill cabin, settling into what Perry called "his dotage," which only meant he would sleep an hour later and pretend to take orders from John Andrew.
Fiction book (1991) -
The appeal of living out her dotage on a GS-9 field ranger's salary had begun to wane.
Fiction book (2001) -
Why, he was in his dotage.
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The old fellow is in his dotage.
Fiction book (1994) -
Her dotage now I do begin to pity.
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May we all in our dotage be proud to say "I was adored once, too."
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I grew up on dime novel science fiction, but in my dotage, I prefer science to fiction.
Blog text (1) -
I could see living out my dotage there, happily oblivious of the rest of the world!
Blog text (5) -
That afternoon the radio was playing softly, for in his dotage Thomas Edison Senior had developed a weakness for music of the lighter kind.
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"Our seventy-four-year-old father, stumbling into his dotage, has taken up with a twenty-year-old girl who has had a baby!
Fiction book (1990)
Synonyms
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The later time in life when a person is old
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2.0
The later part of life after middle age when people often retire and may lose strength
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A loss of mental or physical strength in old age often causing memory loss and confusion
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A period in old age when mental decline makes a person behave like a young child
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How long a person or thing has been around
The state of being old in people or things
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word dotage comes from the verb dote, which once meant 'to be foolish' or 'to show too much love', and the ending -age makes it a state or time. So, dotage is the time in life when someone may act a little foolish or be very fond, often because they are old.