as in ancientness
the state of being something old
despite their indisputable antiquity, many of the carvings look like they could have been made yesterday
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Recent Examples of antiquity
At the Altes Museum, the first museum built on the island, find funerary sculptures, bronze cauldrons, mummy portraits and other remains of classical antiquity.
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Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 1 May 2025
The group beheaded Palmyra's head of antiquities, Khaled al-Assad, and then systematically blew up several of the ancient city's most important monuments.
—Jane Arraf, NPR, 17 Apr. 2025
First and foremost, the movie is a period piece revisiting the horrors of the AIDS epidemic with actual horror, transforming HIV-positive patients into humans whose bodies gradually turn to marble, like X-Men crossed with the Greek antiquities wing at the Louvre.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025
America had brought into the world an agent of displacement no less profound than what antiquity had known — the raw power of capitalism.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Valeriya Safronova, New York Times, 1 May 2025
The group beheaded Palmyra's head of antiquities, Khaled al-Assad, and then systematically blew up several of the ancient city's most important monuments.
—Jane Arraf, NPR, 17 Apr. 2025
First and foremost, the movie is a period piece revisiting the horrors of the AIDS epidemic with actual horror, transforming HIV-positive patients into humans whose bodies gradually turn to marble, like X-Men crossed with the Greek antiquities wing at the Louvre.
—Jordan Mintzer, HollywoodReporter, 19 May 2025
America had brought into the world an agent of displacement no less profound than what antiquity had known — the raw power of capitalism.
—Andrew Moore, New York Times, 15 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for antiquity
age
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Plastic, of course, takes ages to break down, and only a small percentage of the world’s plastic is successfully recycled.—
LEW SICHELMAN,
Miami Herald,
10 July 2025
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Holmes said the Disney+ and ITV audience bases are complementary, rattling off stats including that less than 10% of Disney+’s audience is over the age of 55, while for ITV the figure is around 40%.—
Max Goldbart,
Deadline,
10 July 2025
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“Antiquity.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/antiquity. Accessed 18 Jul. 2025.
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