elderliness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English elderly Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English elderliness From elderly + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The quality or state of being elderly
Saul Bellow wrote his last novel, “Ravelstein,” at age 84, and the book is a masterpiece, marred only by the fact that Bellow, in his elderliness, did keep on repeating himself[…].
2007 September 23, Paul Berman, “Velvet Revolutionary”, in New York Times: