elderliness
nounEtymology From elderly + -ness.
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The quality or state of being elderly
- Saul Bellow wrote his last novel, “Ravelstein,” at age 84, and the book is a masterpiece, marred only by the fact that Bellow, in his elderliness, did keep on repeating himself[…].2007 September 23, Paul Berman, “Velvet Revolutionary”, in New York Times:
- Synonyms
- agedness, oldness, senectitude