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👨‍🦳 Hair turning grey ✨ A shiny look 🪞 Adding silver layer
silvering

silvering

1 5.4
Hair or fur gradually turning grey as someone gets older
  • noun
  • /ˈsɪlvərɪŋ/
: canicie
  • The silvering of his beard gave him a distinguished appearance.

Examples

  • If you don't want to talk about going from black to silver hair right now and it's just a major process, taking it slow, letting the hair heal, you do you hair.

  • My hair is basically Gray or silver again.

  • As she aged, her silvering hair became a sign of her wisdom and experience.

  • Many people embrace the silvering of their hair as a natural part of growing older.

How Grey

whitening
10 3.6
silvering
1 5.4

Surface Forms

silvering singular
silverings plural

Morphology

silvering = silver (transparent) = silver + ing

Clearly the gerund/nominal from the verb 'silver' describing the process of becoming silver/grey, which is directly interpretable from the base.

Etymology

The word silvering comes from the colour of the metal silver, and it brings to mind hair slowly turning 'grey' or 'silver' with age. So silvering means the gradual change of hair or fur to that silver colour.