(v. i.) Feebleness or imbecility of understanding or mind, particularly in old age; the childishness of old age; senility; as, a venerable man, now in his dotage.
(v. i.) Foolish utterance; drivel.
(v. i.) Excessive fondness; weak and foolish affection.
Example Sentences:
(1) Instead, when I think of great skin I think of Katharine Hepburn in her dotage .
(2) The Miliband brothers, whom cartoonists still put in short trousers, are clearly not contemplating dotage just yet, and so surely their gooey professions of love should be set aside for the sterner dictates of combat.
(3) Indeed, Lord Hutton might even be criticised for proposing such a sweeping waiver for uniformed servicemen, who, he insists, must always be able to draw a pension at 60, even though his own figures show that most of them move on to other paid jobs, as opposed to a dependent dotage.
(4) In contrast to that bright 1990s vision of a future UK, it is, moreover, an old country, whose dotage is portrayed as a matter of crabby resentment, a place where there is a collective wish to lock all the doors.
(5) The choices we make for our children become lifestyle choices (with the result that they stay at home into their dotage, knowing their parents will make sure they have the right clothes, hair gel, TVs, iPods and iPads.
(6) Concerning the mother child relationship, there were elements of "anxiety" "dotage" "follow blindly" "disagreement".
(7) They can now happily carry on watching BBC4 into their dotage.
(8) For example in the peak years of his Manchester United dotage the phrase “Paul Scholes, he’s a bit overrated isn’t he?” was effectively unprintable, its publication likely to spark mob anger, civil unrest, punishable ultimately by being stabbed in the eye with a skewer by the Queen.
(9) The mothers of group B showed attitudes of dotage and anxiety, especially when their children were over 12 years of age and the seizures were not controlled.
(10) But there are no false notions of greatness here, the country will bask in a warm glow for weeks to come and today's kids will remember the winter of the South African World cup well into their dotage."
(11) Psychology Today reported at the end of last year that more than a third of us have a distant relationship with our brothers or sisters as adults because of a childhood rivalry that never fully dissipated, while any hopes of an ultimately long-term ceasefire tends to arrive only in our dotage.
Imbecility
Definition:
(n.) The quality of being imbecile; weakness; feebleness, esp. of mind.
Example Sentences:
(1) Infantile delivery also frequently serves to take the curse off self-publicity; sleight of hand for those who find "my programme is on BBC2 tonight" too presumptuous and exposing, and prefer to cower behind the low-status imbecility of "I done rote a fingy for da tellybox!"
(2) By this shape of holidays the partical sphere of the process of training and education, namely the qualification of those oligophren ones in spending an ingenious leisure, should be noticed and contributed to educating those imbecile boys and girls, who are participating their holidays in a camp for their "relative independence*.
(3) Fifty-six patients with cerebral atherosclerosis and epileptiform symptomatology presented an organic defect with signs of lacunar imbecility and atherosclerotic asthenia.
(4) Report on a 5 year old girl with the caracteristic features of the partial trisomy of the short arm of a chromosome no.4: short stature, microcephaly, hydrocephaly, enophthalmus, bulbous nose, deep set malformed ears, hypertrichosis, brachydactyly, hypoplastic ribs, abnormal EEG, imbecility.
(5) "This is imbecilic," said Jean-Yves Oussedik, a historian, puffing his pipe outside the literary cafe Les Deux Magots.
(6) Target London , a folio of 18 posters, bleakly satirised the Thatcher government’s Protect and Survive nuclear attack directives; the critic Richard Cork described the series as the “most hard-hitting attack on government imbecility”.
(7) And there I was, week after week, paid a pittance to jeer at the Smith regime's imbecilities.
(8) It's time to address the public as competent grown-ups and not as imbeciles.
(9) As a late sequelae, there was one patient with intrahepatic block and portal hypertension and one with encephalopathy and imbecility.
(10) Treatment under general anesthesia is inevitably indicated in imbeciles, the feeble-minded, spastics, epileptics, and sometimes in mongoloids.
(11) But before he was a candidate, he was just a visible idiot, and Jon Stewart’s version of him as a knuckle-dragging Queens County imbecile has given us tremendous joy over the years.
(12) The disease had not been diagnosed during life despite imbecility since early childhood and the presence of guiding peripheral symptoms in the form of Pringle's disease.
(13) Meanwhile, because we no longer understand anything unless it is filtered through the prism of the Premier League, various newspapers have already dubbed May's poll " the Wags election " – a classification that underscores the almost infinite creativity of the British media, which have apparently now given up so emphatically that they are content to shoehorn absolutely all human experience into one of four or five pop-cultural tropes, the easier for the voters it apparently regards as imbeciles to understand.
(14) In broadcast interviews, ministers carefully dodge the delivery of any information at all; they would rather sound imbecilic, as if they understood very little and knew even less, than run the risk of having said anything of import.
(15) The differential-diagnostic criteria show the difference of the episodic psychoses of imbeciles from schizophrenias (grafted schizophrenias).
(16) The experience gathered thus far shows that the method presented by the author in his present paper enables the capacity and development of imbecile and abnormality feeble children and juveniles to be diagnosed.
(17) When some highly debile, or imbecile and idiotic children and adolescents refuse to cooperate during the stomatological attendance, the pedopsychiatric consultation fails.
(18) Yet social media is the last remaining British arena in which social mobility flourishes, where imbecilic irrelevances are fast-tracked to positions of extraordinary power by whichever MP or university professor or serious campaigner has decided to give their bile a platform on the news.
(19) Statistically significant differences were established in the values of integrative mark estimations of patients with pronounced debility, of those with mild, medium and profound imbecility.
(20) Patients with pronounced tetrapareses and contractures in all the joints, grave hyperkinesias in all the four extremities, and imbecility were classed with disability group I: those with pronounced para-, hemi-, and tetrapareses, extensive hyperkinesias, combination of the motor disorders with debility were placed into disability group II.