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The condition of being senile; old age or the mental and physical infirmity due to old age.

1. The state or quality of being senior; priority by reason of birth, a superior age.
2. Priority or precedence in office or service; especially military.
3. Superiority in standing to another of equal rank by reason of earlier entrance into the service, or an earlier date of appointment.

The capacity of an organism or sense organ to respond to stimulation; the quality or state of being hypersensitive.

1. A desire for the pleasures of the senses.
2. An excessive indulgence in the pleasures of the senses; lewdness.

The quality or condition of being sentimental, especially in a superficial or maudlin way.

1. The quality or condition of being septic.
2. A substance that promotes putrefaction.

1. An aptitude for making desirable discoveries by accident.
2. The faculty of making fortunate discoveries unexpectedly.
3. The accidental discovery of something pleasant, valuable, or useful.
4. A natural gift for making pleasant, valuable, or useful discoveries without anticipating such results.
5. An apparent aptitude for making fortunate discoveries accidentally.
6. An unexpected and positive result which is obtained after applying a methodology for completely different purposes.
7. Etymology: Serendip, Serendib, former name for Ceylon (modern Sri Lanka); from Arabic Sarandib plus English -ity; from the possession of the gift by the heroes of the Persian fairy tale The Three Princes of Serendip who "were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things they were not in quest of".

Serendipity made its first American dictionary appearance in Webster's New International Dictionary in 1909 and has often been linked with "an accidental or chance discovery".

It was in the 1930s when Walter Cannon of Harvard Medical School used the word to refer to the phenomenon of accidental discovery in scientific research. Then in 1946, sociologist Robert K. Merton and the historian Elinor Barber in The Travels and Adventures of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the Sociology of Science presented the concept of the "serendipity pattern" in empirical research, "of observing an unanticipated, anomalous, and strategic datum, which becomes the occasion for developing a new theory."

Although corporations; such as, Pfizer and Merck have supposedly subscribed to the serendipity pattern, it is said that demand for sustained progress in research often prevents scientists from having the autonomy to take the sidetracks that on occasion lead to the accidental discovery of new knowledge.

The practice of using abnormally long words.

Soliloquizing at great length.

1. A body or company of women united for some common objective; especially, for devotional purposes; in the U.S., the female section of a church congregation.
2. A women's society in a college or university.
3. A group of women or girls joined together by common interests, for fellowship, etc.; specifically, a Greek-letter college/university organization.

Deficient acidity; slightly acid.

Fertility more abundant than normal.

1. Something beyond what is necessary.
2. An excessive or overabundant supply of something.

The phenomenon of events which coincide in time and appear meaningfully related but have no discoverable causal connection.

1. Foolhardy disregard of danger; recklessness.
2. Reckless confidence that might be offensive.
3. Unreasonable or foolhardy contempt for danger; rashness.
4. The quality of being confident and unafraid of danger or punishment especially in a way that seems rude or foolish: "No one has the temerity, or audacity, to disagree with him."
5. Etymology: from Middle French témérité; from Latin temeritatem, temeritas, "blind chance, accident, rashness"; from Latin temere, "by chance, blindly, casually, rashly"; related to tenebrae, "darkness".