oldness
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4.0
- noun
- /ˈoʊldnəs/
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antigüedad
- Due to Boston's industrial history and its archaeology and the oldness of the houses, there was always a burden of heavy metal concentrations in the soil.
Examples
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They thus set aside oldness as having primordial significance.
Academic text (1991) -
So, how can you tell me that oldness doesn't matter?
Blog text (34) -
So if, if oldness makes it good, then which one of the old ones is the good one?
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Like the oldness of my students, their fears seemed too ancient for America.
Fiction book (1996) -
The old ones mostly try to conceal their oldness, and some are pretty successful at it.
Fiction book (1991) -
But in a house, oldness had no such connotation.
Academic text (2008) -
Like many Houstonians, she found the charm of Europe and New England to reside primarily in their oldness.
Academic text (2008) -
But widowhood and dependence have deposited oldness in the lines on her face.
Fiction book (2000) -
This claim to newness completely inverts the authority traditionally given to ancient texts whose weight lay precisely in their oldness.
Academic text (1994) -
The oldness of the ancient castle gave it a unique charm that attracted many tourists.
Synonyms
332
7.7
A very long time
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2.0
The later part of life after middle age when people often retire and may lose strength
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7.3
Great age that shows something is very old
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9.9
The time in a person's life when they are old
The state of being old in people or things
A stage of life when a person is older and respected for their wisdom
A quality that shows something is very old
Being old or having a style from the past
Antonyms
How Old
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Oldness is simply old plus the ending -ness, which makes a word mean 'the state or quality of' something, as in kindness or darkness. So oldness means 'the state of being old', the quality of having existed for a long time.