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Definition of caducity in English: caducitynoun kəˈdjuːsɪtikəˈd(j)usədi mass nounarchaic 1The infirmity of old age; senility. 〈古〉年老体弱；衰迈 my father was attacked with symptoms of caducity Example sentencesExamples - His weak eyesight combined with his caducity puts him out of service.
- The experiments prove that the rate of inhibiting caducity is more than 90% and it can make the rat of 15 months age reach biochemical level of 3 month's age after administrating royal jelly.
- Many women will consider cutting down after they are at the age of thirty and begin to have the evidence of caducity with more and more splashes and wrinkles.
- The botanist, who studied the phenomenon of the caducity of blossom and young nuclei in plum trees, distinguishes three stages of this falling off of the nuclei.
- This lawn belonged to my paternal grandmother, whom I cautiously called Mammaw, for she resented being called anything that remotely betrayed her caducity.
Synonyms decrepitude, infirmity, feebleness, unsteadiness, senescence, decline, old age, dotage, second childhood, confusion, alzheimer's, alzheimer's disease, senile dementia - 1.1literary Frailty or transitory nature.
〈诗/文〉虚弱；易逝性 read these books and reflect on their caducity 读读这些书，想想它们的易逝性。 Example sentencesExamples - The logic, or the justification, in support of this procedure emanates from caducity of life and indeed of the whole creation at large.
- These intimations of mortality triggered in him a ‘consciousness of my very caducity’ (writer's note: caducity is ‘the quality of being transitory or perishable’).
- The caducity of youth is not something I ever thought about it my teens, but can't stop thinking about in my twenties!
- And what is rankling me most is since when have I been the type to believe in the caducity of life?
- This incomplete elaboration leaves the feeling of caducity as a remainder.
Synonyms temporariness, transitoriness, impermanence, brevity, briefness, shortness, ephemerality, short-livedness, momentariness, mutability, instability, volatility
OriginMid 18th century: from French caducité, from caduc, from Latin caducus 'liable to fall', from cadere 'to fall'. Definition of caducity in US English: caducitynounkəˈd(y)o͞osədēkəˈd(j)usədi archaic 1The infirmity of old age; senility. 〈古〉年老体弱；衰迈 Example sentencesExamples - Many women will consider cutting down after they are at the age of thirty and begin to have the evidence of caducity with more and more splashes and wrinkles.
- This lawn belonged to my paternal grandmother, whom I cautiously called Mammaw, for she resented being called anything that remotely betrayed her caducity.
- The experiments prove that the rate of inhibiting caducity is more than 90% and it can make the rat of 15 months age reach biochemical level of 3 month's age after administrating royal jelly.
- The botanist, who studied the phenomenon of the caducity of blossom and young nuclei in plum trees, distinguishes three stages of this falling off of the nuclei.
- His weak eyesight combined with his caducity puts him out of service.
Synonyms decrepitude, infirmity, feebleness, unsteadiness, senescence, decline, old age, dotage, second childhood, confusion, alzheimer's, alzheimer's disease, senile dementia - 1.1literary Frailty or transitory nature.
〈诗/文〉虚弱；易逝性 read these books and reflect on their caducity 读读这些书，想想它们的易逝性。 Example sentencesExamples - And what is rankling me most is since when have I been the type to believe in the caducity of life?
- The caducity of youth is not something I ever thought about it my teens, but can't stop thinking about in my twenties!
- This incomplete elaboration leaves the feeling of caducity as a remainder.
- The logic, or the justification, in support of this procedure emanates from caducity of life and indeed of the whole creation at large.
- These intimations of mortality triggered in him a ‘consciousness of my very caducity’ (writer's note: caducity is ‘the quality of being transitory or perishable’).
Synonyms temporariness, transitoriness, impermanence, brevity, briefness, shortness, ephemerality, short-livedness, momentariness, mutability, instability, volatility
OriginMid 18th century: from French caducité, from caduc, from Latin caducus ‘liable to fall’, from cadere ‘to fall’. |