| Concept: | Oldness. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
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-nouns
oldness; age, antiquity; cobwebs of antiquity., maturity; decline, decay; senility., seniority, eldership, primogeniture., archaism (the past); thing of the past, relic of the past; megatherium; Sanskrit., tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law.
-verbs
be old; have had its day, have seen its day; become old; age, fade, senesce.
-adjectives
old, ancient, antique; of long standing, time-honored, venerable; elder, eldest; firstborn., prime; primitive, primeval, primigenous; paleoanthropic, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate; aboriginal (beginning); diluvian, antediluvian; protohistoric; prehistoric; antebellum, colonial, precolumbian; patriarchal, preadamite; paleocrystic; fossil, paleozoic, preglacial, antemundane; archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter., immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary; inveterate, rooted., antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete; out of date, out of fashion, out of it; stale, old-fashioned, behind the age; old-world; exploded; gone out, gone by; passe, run out; senile; timeworn; crumbling (deteriorated); secondhand., old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam, old as history.
-adverbs
since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah.
-phrases
vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi [Tacitus. "We exalt the old while neglecting the new" (Latin)].
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| Antonyms: | newness |
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| Main Entry: | years |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age; old age |
| Synonyms: | agedness, caducity, dotage, elderliness, generation, lifespan, lifetime, oldness, senescence, senility |
| Antonyms: | youth |
| Main Entry: | agedness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age |
| Synonyms: | elderliness, golden years, old age, oldness, senectitude, senescence, seniority |
| Main Entry: | elderliness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | age |
| Synonyms: | agedness, aging, oldness, senectitude, senescence, seniority |