Verbal Ability - One Word Substitutes - Discussion

Imbecility:- if you are feeble of mind or weak on grasping things. This condition is said to be imbecility.
Example:- he fell into melancholy (addiction) of drugs, imbecility and at last got mad.

Senile:- it is the adjective for the specific loss of one's mind.
Example:- He keeps forgetting things: I think he's getting senile.

Dotage:- as same as senile but the main difference of senile and dotage is a noun for the time in one's life when one is aged and not as strong as before. Whereas Senility is the state of being when one is senile, an adjective for the specific loss of one's mind as one age.

Senility is the correct one. Because senility- the state of being senile while dotage- the time when one is not so string as before it can be mental or physical.

What is the opposite of dotage?

It is a period of life in which a person is old and week.

I guess dotage and senility both meaning is same.

Senility is the correct answer as dotage means the period of life in which a person is old and weak. Suppose if we frame a sentence using dotage then it is as follows:- Nowadays girls are considered as a pillar of support in their parents dotage.

Using Senile:-Mary could not cope up with hier senile husband and ran away from her house.

Dotage means 0% growth in age.

Dotage -the period of life in which a person is old and weak.

Synonyms-declining years, old age.

So, dotage is a right option. Thanks for all your explanation.

Dotage should be the answer I guess. Because the question is asking the phase of life when a man acts like a fool. It's not asking the word for acting like a fool in old age. Just notice the slight difference.

Thanks for all your explanation of the answer.