Synonyms of ancientness

ancientness

noun

1

as in maturity

the state of being an old person

if nothing else, the patriarch had achieved a degree of ancientness worthy of veneration

Synonyms & Similar Words

• maturity
• age
• agedness
• elderliness
• senility
• feebleness
• senescence
• second childhood
• anecdotage
• dotage
• venerableness
• infirmity
• senectitude
• anility
• caducity

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• youth
• freshness
• youthfulness
• youngness
• minority
• prime
• adolescence
• immaturity
• juvenility
• nonage

2

as in antiquity

the state of being something old

the ancientness of the papyrus was authenticated by carbon dating

Synonyms & Similar Words

• antiquity
• antiquation
• agedness
• hoariness
• age
• datedness
• obsoleteness
• obsolescence
• agelessness
• fustiness
• old-fashionedness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• newness
• modernity
• currency
• freshness
• novelty
• modernness
• recentness
• currentness

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of ancientness

Since war broke out in late February, the show in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia province, had grown increasingly popular, as interest surges among Chinese people in a nearby nation and culture that rivals their own in its depth and ancientness. — Sylvie Zhuang, CNN Money, 15 Apr. 2026