Definition of "caducity" []

• The frailty of old age; senility. (noun)
• The quality or state of being perishable; impermanence. (noun)

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• "He answered the caducity of him having a successful foreign trip the way he should have."
• "The attitude that words may be discarded -- indeed, that words have caducity at all -- is not salubriously abstergent, but reflects an agrestic nisus that all cultivated English speakers must eschew."
• "Were I to conjecture, I should say that the whole will centre, before it is long, in Mr. Pitt and Co., the present being an heterogeneous jumble of youth and caducity, which cannot be efficient."