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Aging vs Oldness - What's the difference?

aging | oldness |

As nouns the difference between aging and oldness

is that aging is the process of becoming older or more mature while oldness is the state of being old; age.

As a verb aging

is .

As an adjective aging

is becoming elderly.

aging

English

(wikipedia aging)

Alternative forms

* ageing (Commonwealth English)

Verb

(head)

    • Noun

  • (en noun) (US)
  • The process of becoming older or more mature.
  • Allowing something to become older.
    • The owner asked the clerk to age some big bills that were due.
  • The deliberate act of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is.
  • (gerontology) Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time
  • (euphemistic) Elderly person. Only as a collective plural in "the aging"

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Becoming elderly.
    • The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.

    Usage notes

    * Comparative and superlative forms are rare.

    Anagrams

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    oldness

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • The state of being old; age.
  • *:
  • *:So that I may reste bitwene thyn armes / for thow arte a clene vyrgyn aboue all knyghtes as the floure of the lyly / in whome vyrgynyte is sygnefyed /and thou arte the rose the whiche is the floure of al good vertu / & in coloure of fyre / For the fyre of the holy ghoost is take so in the / that my flesshe which was al dede of oldenes / is become yonge ageyne