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agelessness

agelessness

7.5
The quality of seeming never to get older
  • noun
  • /ˈeɪdʒləsnəs/
translation icon : atemporalidad
  • The ancient oak tree stood in the field, a symbol of agelessness as it had witnessed centuries of history.

Examples

  • I was cursed with agelessness.

    Clash of the Titans (2010)

  • The landscape beyond the garden was ageless, with that Mediterranean agelessness which has captivated English travelers since they first began their journeys to rediscover, three hundred years ago, the classical world their ancestors had done so much to overthrow; but the garden was timeless, belonging neither to the present nor to the past but to an arrested moment that exists only in the English imagination.

    Academic text (1997)

  • Many cultures believe in the agelessness of their traditions, passing them down through generations without change.

  • The artwork captures the agelessness of beauty, expressing emotions that resonate with people of all ages.

Synonyms

timelessness
vsagelessness
4 7.0

A quality of something that never looks old and fits any time

focuses specifically on being unaffected by age or time passage
agerasia
vsagelessness
9.9

Keeping a young appearance even when you are old

refers to a broader state of not aging rather than only looks

Antonyms

to decay
37 4.4

To slowly fall into ruin because of age or neglect

aging
  • US
8 4.1

Leaving food or drink for a time so it becomes better in taste

How Timeless

eternity
  • Informal
63 4.7
agelessness
7.5
longevity
45 5.5
durability
22 3.8
transience
2 8.1

Surface Forms

agelessness singular
agelessnesses plural

Morphology

agelessness = ageless (transparent) = age + less + ness

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'ageless', yielding the state of being ageless; meaning is directly derived.

Etymology

Agelessness breaks into a- 'not', age 'years', and -ness 'state', so the word names the state of 'not being affected by age'. That's why agelessness means being timeless or looking like you never grow old.