oldness
Example Sentences
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Nostalgia became a default listening mode — and for me, the cumulative oldness felt distressingly new.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 28, 2021
What is most astonishing about Pinus longaeva is not the age of any single organism but the collective oldness and otherness of its entire community.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
Rather than presenting a guide to very old German breweries ranked by oldness, I am awarding each brewery 0 to 10 points in each of three adjudicative categories: age, style, and flavor.
From Slate ● Oct. 22, 2014
I say newness, but fashion, like most art, depends on recycled and rejiggered oldness for raw material.
From New York Times ● Sep. 16, 2011
And she’s right; the oldness is now just appearing about her lip, her temples, in the tide of her voice, which is steadily deepening, broadening.
From "Native Speaker" by Chang-rae Lee
