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elderliness

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of elderliness

the state of being an old person

  • refuses to let her elderliness interfere with her indomitable zest for life
Synonyms of elderliness

age, agedness, ancientness, maturity
Words Related to elderliness

senectitude

venerableness

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

feebleness, infirmity
Near Antonyms of elderliness

freshness, prime, youthfulness

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

youngness, youth

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