Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or condition of being old; oldness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality of being aged; oldness.

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  • noun The state or quality of being aged.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the property characteristic of old age

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Examples

  • It is a family responsibility, but lacking a family, a widow has to have certain qualifications, one being the qualification of agedness.

    Widows 2007

  • And tremble at my agedness: apparently my taste in pop was set in stone twenty-nine years ago.

    Yatima » 2009 » March 2009

  • It is a family responsibility, but lacking a family, a widow has to have certain qualifications, one being the qualification of agedness.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • And tremble at my agedness: apparently my taste in pop was set in stone twenty-nine years ago.

    a musical interlude 2009

  • You kind of like to imagine you've got the funk, can still manage it a bit... when did middle-agedness creep up on me?

    In which I am Officially Aged. slimmeroftheyea 2008

  • I am all for the concept of middle-agedness kicking in somewhere around eighty-five or so, as I'm assuming most of my friends will all be too senile or stoned on their "glaucoma medicine" to join me in reckless frivolities by then anyway.

    bluemeany Diary Entry bluemeany 2006

  • Yvette, pitched in gruesome, deadlocked hostility to the Saywell household, was very old and very wise: with the agedness and the wisdom of the young, which always overleaps the agedness and the wisdom of the old, or the elderly.

    The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

  • For the moment she was hibernating in her oldness, her agedness.

    The Virgin and the Gypsy 2003

  • Tenderness crept into her eyes, and her freckles seemed to fade out, and even the small blunt nose of her take on middle-agedness and motherliness.

    Miss Theodosia's Heartstrings Annie Hamilton Donnell

  • Bloated, sagging, and among those firm youthful bodies, those undistorted faces, a strange and terrifying monster of middle-agedness, Linda advanced into the room, coquettishly smiling her broken and discoloured smile, and rolling as she walked, with what was meant to be a voluptuous undulation, her enormous haunches.

    Brave New World Huxley, Aldous, 1894-1963 1932

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