ANCIENTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does ancientness mean? 

• ANCIENTNESS (noun)
  The noun ANCIENTNESS has 1 sense:

1. extreme oldness

  Familiarity information: ANCIENTNESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ANCIENTNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Extreme oldness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

ancientness; antiquity

Hypernyms ("ancientness" is a kind of...):

oldness (the quality of being old; the opposite of newness)

Derivation:

ancient (very old)

ancient (belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire)