OLDNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does oldness mean? 

• OLDNESS (noun)
  The noun OLDNESS has 2 senses:

1. the opposite of youngness

2. the quality of being old; the opposite of newness

  Familiarity information: OLDNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• OLDNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The opposite of youngness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

age (how long something has existed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oldness"):

agedness; senescence (the property characteristic of old age)

senility (the state of being senile)

longevity; seniority (the property of being long-lived)

staleness (having lost purity and freshness as a consequence of aging)

Antonym:

youngness (the opposite of oldness)

Derivation:

old ((used especially of persons) having lived for a relatively long time or attained a specific age)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being old; the opposite of newness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

age (how long something has existed)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "oldness"):

obsoleteness; superannuation (the property of being out of date and not current)

ancientness; antiquity (extreme oldness)

old-fashionedness (the property of being no longer fashionable)

time of origin; vintage (the oldness of wines)

hoariness (great age (especially grey or white with age))

Antonym:

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

Derivation:

old (of long duration; not new)