hoariness

Horgan is the best thing about it, undercutting any hoariness with a curl of her lip or a withering aside.

From The Guardian ● Feb. 23, 2020

What assaults you instead is the fusty banality of the dialogue and the hoariness of the characters.

From New York Times ● Jan. 11, 2012

Whereby it doth appear, that hoariness is nothing but a whiteness of hair, caused by a putrefaction of the humours about the roots of the hair, through the want of natural heat in old age.

From The Works of Aristotle the Famous Philosopher Containing his Complete Masterpiece and Family Physician; his Experienced Midwife, his Book of Problems and his Remarks on Physiognomy by Aristotle

Then he looked at his beard and seeing that the white hairs in it outnumbered the black, bethought himself that hoariness is the harbinger of death.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume III by John Payne

Looking down upon the treetops of the forest from a height, there seemed to come from day to day a hoariness in the boughs, a greyish hue, distinct from the blackness of winter.

From Field and Hedgerow Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies by Richard Jefferies