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senectitude (s) (noun), senectitudes (pl)
Elderly, characterized by being advanced in age: Despite the senectitude of Harry's aunt, she was a marvelous pianist and practiced regularly.

Senectitude is for people who can laugh as hard as the seventy-eight-year-old lady who said she realized that she wasn't twenty-one anymore.

She described standing near a curb waiting for a friend to pick her up so they could drive to a restaurant for lunch. A man observing her waiting assumed something might be wrong. He came up to her and asked if there was anything he could do to help.

She told him that there wasn't and said, "I'm just waiting to get picked up."* Then she said, he looked at her as if he couldn't believe what she'd told him and so he replied by saying, "Well, lady, as old as you look, you could be in for quite a wait."

*"Picked up" is slang for waiting to make a casual acquaintance with someone, usually in anticipation of an intimate relationship.
—Compiled from the introduction of
Old Age Is Not for Sissies by Art Linkletter;
Viking Penguin, Inc.; 1988; page 1.
This entry is located in the following units: sen-, sene-, seni-, sir- (page 1) -tude (page 4)