elderliness

English

Etymology

elderly +‎ -ness

Noun

elderliness (uncountable)

The quality or state of being elderly
- 2007 September 23, Paul Berman, “Velvet Revolutionary”, in New York Times‎:
  Saul Bellow wrote his last novel, “Ravelstein,” at age 84, and the book is a masterpiece, marred only by the fact that Bellow, in his elderliness, did keep on repeating himself […] .

Synonyms

agedness, oldness, senectitude; see also Thesaurus:old age

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