Meaning and example
the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age
The passage used "senescence" to mean the organic process of growing older and showing the effects of increasing age.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of -0.122 places senescence in the very rare range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 45.1% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
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Similar-prevalence words
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Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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