Elderliness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality or state of being elderly uncountable

    "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[…]."

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ageageagednessagednessanilityantiquity

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"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[…]."

Etymology

From elderly + -ness.

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