Verbal Ability - One Word Substitutes - Discussion

It is evident in Shakespeare's King Lear. The king fails to judge his own daughters intention. Finally he suffers because of his judgement and dotage.

Imbecility: stupid or inane behavior.

Senility: refers to mental deterioration that often comes with old age, as in severe memory problems. If you find your shoes in the fridge or accidentally call your son by the dog's name, you may wonder if senility is Kicking in.

Superannuation: the act of discharging someone because of age.(especially to cause someone to retire from service on a pension).

Dotage: the mental decline that many elderly people eventually experience. Those in their dotage sometimes act silly or forgetful.

Noun: Dotage; plural noun: Dotages.

The period of life in which a person is old and weak.
"You could live here and look after me in my dotage".

Synonyms:

Declining years, winter/autumn of one's life; advanced years, old age, elderliness, agedness, oldness, senescence, senility, superannuation, decrepitude, second childhood; literary yield; rare caducity.

Antonyms: Childhood.

Adjective:

Senile (of a person) having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties.

"She couldn't cope with her senile husband".

Synonyms:

Doddering, doddery, decrepit, aged, long in the tooth, senescent, failing, declining, infirm, feeble, unsteady, in one's dotage, losing one's faculties, in one's second childhood, mentally confused, suffering from Alzheimer's (disease) , suffering from senile dementia; More.

Antonyms: In the prime of life (of a condition) characteristic of or caused by old age.

"Senile decay".

Senility : The condition of being senile.

If someone is in their dotage, they are very old and becoming weak. (Even in his dotage, the Professor still sits on the committee).

Both 'Senility' and 'Dotage' are synonyms.

Dotage is correct answer. In the given question. It ask about the mental ability. And behavior, and senility is a stage of life and old age is synonyms of it.

Senility is more closer.

Senility is a correct answer, it is more suitable than dotage.

Senility is bodily and mental deterioration due to old age dotage is loss of mental acuity due to aging, behaves like fool.

A decline of mental faculties, especially as associated with old age; senility.

2. Excessive fondness; foolish affection.