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elderliness

noun

Etymology

From elderly + -ness.

  1. inherited from *alþizô✻
  2. inherited from eldra
  3. inherited from eldre
  4. suffixed as elderly — “elder + ly”
  5. suffixed as elderliness — “elderly + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality or state of being elderly

    • 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[…].

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