Verbal Ability - One Word Substitutes - Discussion

Dotage means 0% growth in age.

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.

I guess dotage and senility both meaning is same.

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

What is the opposite of dotage?

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.

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 should be the correct answer.

A fool is a person who you think behaves or speaks in a way that lacks intelligence or good judgement.

Senility is the state of behaving in a confused or strange way, and unable to remember things, because you are old. 'Be in your dotage' means to be old and not always able to think clearly. When one can not think clearly (dotage) , he/she lacks intelligence and so behaves like a fool. But when one behaves in a confused way or is unable to remember things (senility), it doesn't necessarily mean he behaves like a fool.

So, the correct answer is 'dotage'.

Senile is specifically for mental condition so childish behavior comes from senility but dotage is a close one but its for weakness, not the behavior. I am so sure because we had a poem where 7 stages of life eas shown and the last was senility which says childish behavior.

Even you can go for Google or a dictionary.