Anecdotage

Reading through a web page about development of language and came across this

Anecdotage

Anecdotal dotage; that advanced age where all one does is relate stories about "the good, old days."

This word really means "anecdotes considered as a whole." But I stumbled across it in the dictionary today, and the "anecdotal dotage" idea just sort of leaped out at me. However, I've subsequently discoverd that The Oxford English Dictionary not only lists this sense of the word — and defines it, succinctly, as "garrulous old age" — but it has a citation that dates all the way back to 1835!

That is me defined then!