oldness
Example Sentences
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“What was the relationship between personal fear of oldness and the ways in which oldness was structured in society?” she asks.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2026
Slate tracked the question in real time, adding and subtracting years of seeming oldness to Biden’s baseline age of 263 as he delivered remarks for a bit over an hour.
From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2024
Nostalgia became a default listening mode — and for me, the cumulative oldness felt distressingly new.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2021
She was, in the words of one admirer, “a very old soul in a very young body,” and part of that oldness was a dedication to—and a scholarly acquaintance with—the classical canon of jazz.
From The New Yorker ● Jul. 1, 2015
I watched them, feeling very young and inexperienced and yet strangely old, with an oldness that watched and waited quietly within me.
From "Invisible Man" by Ralph Ellison
