senescence

Other forms of senescence

plural

senescences·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about senescence

What does senescence mean?

senescence means "the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in senescence?

senescence has 3 syllables: se-nes-cence. The stress falls on "nes". In IPA it is /səˈnɛsəns/.

What is another word for senescence?

Close synonyms include aging, ageing, agedness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is senescence a common word?

senescence is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with senescence?

2 words rhyme with senescence. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.