elderliness

English

Etymology

elderly +‎ -ness

Noun

elderliness (uncountable)

1. The quality or state of being elderly
   • 2007 September 23, Paul Berman, “Velvet Revolutionary”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     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 […] .

Synonyms

• agedness, oldness, senectitude; see also Thesaurus:old age