SENILITY

senility. Mental feebleness or impairment caused by old age. • A senile person (in the legal, as opposed to the popular, sense) is incompetent to enter into a binding contract or to execute a will. — Also termed senile dementia (see-nIl di-men-shee-[schwa]). [Cases: Mental Health 3. C.J.S. Insane Persons§§ 2, 6.] — senile, adj.