senile dementia

1. 1.

   dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease

   Synonymssenile psychosis

   Broaderdementia

Questions about senile dementia

What does senile dementia mean?

senile dementia means "dementia of the aged; results from degeneration of the brain in the absence of cerebrovascular disease".

What is another word for senile dementia?

Close synonyms include senile psychosis. 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 senile dementia a common word?

senile dementia 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.