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dotage
zelfstandig naamwoord
1 dotage
Mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations.
synoniemen: second childhood, senility.
Roget 503:
disordered reason,
disordered intellect;
diseased mind,
unsound mind,
abnormal mind;
derangement,
unsoundness;
psychosis;
neurosis;
cognitive disorder;
affective disorder†.
insanity,
lunacy;
madness
etc.
adj.;
mania,
rabies,
furor,
mental alienation,
aberration;
paranoia,
schizophrenia;
dementation†,
dementia,
demency†;
phrenitis†,
phrensy†,
frenzy,
raving,
incoherence,
wandering,
delirium,
calenture of the brain†;
delusion,
hallucination;
lycanthropy†;
brain storm†.
vertigo,
dizziness,
swimming;
sunstroke,
coup de soleil [Fr.],
siriasis†.
fanaticism,
infatuation,
craze;
oddity,
eccentricity,
twist,
monomania
(caprice)
608;
kleptodipsomania†;
hypochondriasis [Med.]
etc.
(low spirits)
837;
melancholia,
depression,
clinical depression,
severe depression;
hysteria;
amentia†.
screw loose,
tile loose,
slate loose;
bee in one's bonnet,
rats in the upper story.
dotage
etc.
(imbecility)
499.
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Roget 499:
want of intelligence
etc.
498,
want of intellect
etc.
450;
shadowness†,
silliness,
foolishness
etc.
adj.;
imbecility,
incapacity,
vacancy of mind,
poverty of intellect,
weakness of intellect,
clouded perception,
poor head,
apartments to let;
stupidity,
stolidity;
hebetude†,
dull understanding,
meanest capacity,
shortsightedness;
incompetence
etc.
(unskillfulness)
699.
one's weak side,
not one's strong point;
bias
etc.
481;
infatuation
etc.
(insanity)
503.
simplicity,
puerility,
babyhood;
dotage,
anility†,
second childishness,
fatuity;
idiocy,
idiotism†;
driveling.
folly,
frivolity,
irrationality,
trifling,
ineptitude,
nugacity†,
inconsistency,
lip wisdom,
conceit;
sophistry
etc.
477;
giddiness
etc.
(inattention)
458;
eccentricity
etc.
503;
extravagance
etc.
(absurdity)
497;
rashness
etc.
863.
act of folly
etc.
699.
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Roget 128:
age;
oldness†
etc.
adj.;
old age,
advanced age,
golden years;
senility,
senescence;
years,
anility†,
gray hairs,
climacteric,
grand climacteric,
declining years,
decrepitude,
hoary age,
caducity†,
superannuation;
second childhood,
second childishness;
dotage;
vale of years,
decline of life,
sear and yellow leaf"
[Macbeth];
threescore years and ten;
green old age,
ripe age;
longevity;
time of life.
seniority,
eldership;
elders
etc.
(veteran)
130;
firstling;
doyen,
father;
primogeniture.
[Science of old age.]
geriatrics,
nostology†.
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Moby betekeniswoordenboek: advanced age, advanced years, age, age of retirement, an incurable disease, anility, blind faith, caducity, childishness, credulity, credulousness, debility, decline, decline of life, declining years, decrepitude, disposition to believe, dotardism, ease of belief, eld, elderliness, feebleness, fondness, green old age, gross credulity, hale old age, hoary age, infatuation, infirm old age, infirmity, infirmity of age, longevity, old age, oldness, overcredulity, overcredulousness, overopenness to conviction, overtrustfulness, pensionable age, rash conviction, ricketiness, ripe old age, second childhood, senectitude, senile debility, senile dementia, senile psychosis, senile weakness, senilism, senility, senior citizenship, superannuation, the downward slope, the golden years, trustfulness, uncritical acceptance, uncriticalness, unquestioning belief, unripe acceptation, unskepticalness, unsuspectingness, unsuspiciousness, vale of years, white hairs, will to believe, willingness to believe, wishful belief, wishful thinking ... meer laten zien.
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