SENESCENCE Synonyms

• change toward something smaller or lower

• a condition inferior to an earlier condition; a gradual falling off from a better state; decline

• a gradual decrease; as of stored charge or current

• a downward slope or bend

• grow worse

• not accept as true

• show unwillingness towards

• grow smaller

• go down

• fall in value

• inflect for number, gender, case, etc.

• a state of deterioration due to old age or long use

• The quality or state of being wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age.

• coming to full development; becoming mature

• (biology) the process of an individual organism growing organically; a purely biological unfolding of events involved in an organism changing gradually from a simple to a more complex level

• (medicine) the formation of morbific matter in an abscess or a vesicle and the discharge of pus

• a late time of life

• the property characteristic of old age

• acquiring desirable qualities by being left undisturbed for some time

• the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age

• growing old