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ancientness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of ancientness

1 the state of being an old person

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

age, agedness, elderliness, maturity
Words Related to ancientness

senectitude

venerableness

anecdotage, anility, caducity, dotage, second childhood, senescence, senility

feebleness, infirmity
Near Antonyms of ancientness

freshness, prime, youthfulness

adolescence, immaturity, juvenility, minority, nonage
Antonyms of ancientness

youngness, youth

2 the state of being something old

  • the ancientness of the papyrus was authenticated by carbon dating
Synonyms of ancientness

age, agedness, antiquity, hoariness
Words Related to ancientness

antiquation, datedness, obsolescence, obsoleteness, old-fashionedness

fustiness

agelessness
Near Antonyms of ancientness

currency, currentness, freshness, modernity, modernness, novelty, recentness
Antonyms of ancientness

newness

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