Dotage
Noun: A state or period of old age especially when accompanied by mental decline.
Example: “His forgetfulness indicated that he was entering his dotage.”
Dotage is a casual and less formal word for senility
The photo of the very old deciduous tree was taken at the Naval Observatory in Greenwich UK and may have been planted by Admiral Nelson in the 1700s.
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