venerability en · NOUN
Etymology
From venerable + -ity, from Latin venerabilitas.
Meanings
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(countable, uncountable) The qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc.
Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon.
The far-flungness of the word, the phenomenological pleasure of finding it variously transformed by Ransom's modernity and Beowulf’s venerability made me feel vaguely something for which again I only found the words years later.
1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxv:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| venerabilities | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Synonyms
agedness · ancientness · datedness · decrepitude · venerability · oldhood · cobwebbiness · antiquity · hoariness · hoariness · age · hoar · venerableness · venerableness · decrepitness · vetustity · agedness · oldness
Translations (6)
hy պատկառելիություն (the qualities of being venerable) · de Ehrwürdigkeit (the qualities of being venerable) · es venerabilidad (the qualities of being venerable) · fi kunnioitettavuus (the qualities of being venerable) · hy պատկառանք (the qualities of being venerable) · it venerabilità (the qualities of being venerable)