oldness

But it didn’t come through in the polls as much as his evident oldness did, and the press pointed this out to him whenever it had the chance, which was rarely, because he grew to despise them.

Slate tracked the question in real time, adding and subtracting years of seeming oldness to Biden’s baseline age of 263 as he delivered remarks for a bit over an hour.

Oldness is deepness is newness is nowness.

Nostalgia became a default listening mode — and for me, the cumulative oldness felt distressingly new.

In the US, the fight against oldness has become social ritual, enforced by private fear and social momentum and a for-profit healthcare industry.