Venerability

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc. countable, uncountable

    "Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon."

  2. 2
    the quality of deserving veneration wordnet

Synonyms

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venerablenessageagednessancientnessantiquitycobwebbiness

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"Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon."

Etymology

From venerable + -ity, from Latin venerabilitas.

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