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  • noun The state of being an elder.

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elder +‎ -hood

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Examples

  • Some of them like to think of old age as "elderhood," which is thinking of old age as just another stage of life, like childhood or adulthood.

    Raging Against Aging Henry Allen 2011

  • Maybe after elderhood we won't have death, just more stages of elderhood, perhaps dignified with Roman numerals, like Super Bowls: Elderhood XXVII . . .

    Raging Against Aging Henry Allen 2011

  • Nowadays there are predictions of decrepitude-free eternal life—perpetual elderhood—through cyborgian implants, restoration therapies, genome sequencing, cellular age-reversal work-ups and trans-humanism.

    Raging Against Aging Henry Allen 2011

  • The marriage of youth (in the body) and elderhood (in the soul) and the sweet possibility of a life lived all the way out to its edges, a full on, full out, full volume life.

    Dr. Judith Rich: Cycles and Seasons of a Soulful Life 2010

  • They hopefully will make it through the phases of childhood, young adulthood, midlife, and elderhood.

    AMERICAN PIE 2009

  • Plus a few approaching the cusp of elderhood, who have so touched my heart and my life, that I stand in the world and walk on paths they have cleared with a steadiness of gait and sureness of direction that I could not imagine feeling without their having made the way.

    Alison Rose Levy: Thanksgiving Recipes: Relishing Loved Ones and Cranberries 2009

  • Awakening, enters midlife during an Unraveling, and spends their elderhood during a Crisis.

    BOOMERS - WINTER IS COMING 2009

  • The human life cycle extends 80 to 100 years going through the stages of childhood, young adulthood, midlife, and elderhood.

    BOOMERS - WINTER IS COMING 2009

  • My mama's boy is 36 now and after all those years of detention, wrecked cars and speeding tickets, finally he is the one who looks out for his mama as I segue into elderhood.

    Arms And The Mom 2008

  • The climax of the event will be his admission to elderhood in a ritual performed by elder Steve Rhodes in conjunction with a triumvirate that also includes Chief Femis Asekun and Ambassador Segun Olusola.

    A Painter meets an Actor on Great Highlife Party Stage Winner of the Prince Claus Award 2006 2008

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