caducity
81retrogression — n 1. movement backward, retrogradation, regression, regress, recession, retrocession, retroaction; ebb, refluence, reflux; withdrawal, retreat, retirement. 2.Biol. retrograde metamorphosis; decline, deterioration, dilapidation, declination,… …
82senility — n dotage, superannuation, caducity; decrepitude, (of women) anility, senescence, failure of mental abilities, loss of one s faculties, waning or fading of abilities; foolishness, second childhood, childishness …
83volatility — n 1. vaporability, vaporizability, evap orability; evaporableness, vaporousness, vaporiness, vaporosity; gaseousness. 2. explosiveness, fieriness, tension. 3. flightiness, changefulness, capriciousness, whimsicality, impulsiveness, fickleness,… …
84year — n 1. session, period, space, term, spell, span, stretch. 2. years a. age, lifetime, life span; generation, duration, stage of life.b. old age, agedness, oldness, elderliness; senescence, senectitude, second childhood, senility, anility, caducity …
85old age — [n] latter part of animate life advancing years*, age, agedness, autumn of life*, caducity, debility, declining years*, decrepitude, dotage, elderliness, evening of life*, feebleness, golden age*, golden years*, infirmity, second childhood*,… …
86years — [n] age; old age agedness, caducity, dotage, elderliness, generation, lifespan, lifetime, oldness, senescence, senility; concept 715 Ant. youth …
87caducous — a. of short duration; Botany, dying when function is completed; deciduous. ♦ caducity, n …
88caducous — adj. Biol. (of organs and parts) easily detached or shed at an early stage. Derivatives: caducity n. Etymology: L caducus falling f. cadere fall …
