Definitions for senectitude
- the last stage of life; old age.
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Call me lazy, if you will; write me off as a dilettante lurching toward senectitude....For me, this was simply a retirement project more purposeful than golf, more engrossing than whittling.Austen A. Ettinger, "About Men: The Retiring Kind," New York Times, May 28, 1989
... [The newspaper] began to run editorials reminding the voters that while the lifespan of man undoubtedly had been prolonged, the problem of senectitude had by no means been conquered, and that aged men in positions of public trust could constitute a definite hazard ...Edwin O'Connor, The Last Hurrah, 1956