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The organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
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senescence
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1690s, from senescent + -ence . Related: Scenescency (1660s).
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
For the aging of plants specifically, see plant senescence . For premature aging disorders, see Progeroid syndromes . Senescence (from , meaning "to grow old," from senex ) or biological aging (also spelled biological ageing ) is the gradual deterioration ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Senescence \Se*nes"cence\, n. [See Senescent .] The state of growing old; decay by time.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age [syn: aging , ageing ] the property characteristic of old age [syn: agedness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context biology English) The state or process of ageing, especially in humans; old age. 2 (context cell biology English) Ceasing to divide by mitosis because of shortening of telomeres or excessive DNA damage. 3 (context gerontology English) Old age; ...
Usage examples of senescence.
The only physiognomic problem with Albertine was her tendency to burn out the cells, like in diseases of senescence.
Love, courtship, marriage, babies, grandparenthood, senescence, life-support, heavily monitored institutionalized death, and the survivors left arguing about what to do with the chipped china: the old, old human progression would have flowed like hydrogen through the fuel cell of a new 2025 Wuhan Panda.
McDade bitched at the meeting that if he had to watch Nightmare on Elm Street XXII: The Senescence one more time he was going to take a brody off the House's roof.
Gambling on a continuation of the worst aspects of the human condition – disease, senescence, and death – looks like a good way to lose money, and a deflationary spiral lasting almost fifty hours has taken down huge swaths of the global stock market.
Most people eventually picked up that kind of economical motion if their bodies didn't nose-dive into senescence by middle age, before they had time to mature, but this looked like the product of hard training, if not anabolic steroids.
Rumour is spreading throughout gated shelter communities in the American mid-west: a vaccine against senescence, a slow virus coded in the genome that evolution hasn’.