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Decrepitude

//dəˈkɹɛpɪˌtuːd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state of being decrepit or worn out from age or long use. countable, uncountable

    "There prevailed in his time an opinion, that the world was in its decay, and that we have had the misfortune to be produced in the decrepitude of nature."

  2. 2
    a state of deterioration due to old age or long use wordnet
  3. 3
    The quality or state of being wasted and weakened by or as if by the infirmities of old age. wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French décrépitude, from Old French, from Latin dēcrepitūdō (“decrepitude”).

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