The Only Use of
senile
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The Memory Keeper’s Daughter
- For in moments like these she saw how the world looked at him and saw an old man, senile and forgetful, rather than the universe that had been, that was still, Leo March.†
p. 100.9senile = mental weakness caused by old age; or describing a medical condition as caused by old age
Definition:
weakness from old age (especially mental weakness); or describing a medical condition as caused by old age