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dotage noun [ ˈdəʊtɪdʒ ]

• the period of life in which a person is old and weak.
• "you could live here and look after me in my dotage"
Similar: declining years, winter/autumn of one's life, advanced years, old age, elderliness, agedness, oldness, senescence, senility, superannuation, decrepitude, second childhood, eld, caducity,
Opposite: childhood,
Origin: late Middle English: from dote + -age.


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