Decrepitude

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  • noun. The quality or condition of being weakened, worn out, impaired, or broken down by old age, illness, or hard use.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The state of being broken down by infirmities, physical or mental, especially infirmities of age.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. The broken state produced by decay and the infirmities of age; infirm old age.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. the state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. a state of deterioration due to old age or long use
    • Word Usage
    "The most apropos description of this cycle of inherent decrepitude is perhaps the Yiddish word schlock, meaning something "cheap, shoddy, or inferior.""
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    deterioration  impairment  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    ailment  baldness  debility  decadence  deformity  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    caducity  debilitation  debility  decay  deterioration  
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