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Lengthiness vs Annosity - What's the difference?

lengthiness | annosity |

As nouns the difference between lengthiness and annosity

is that lengthiness is the property of being lengthy, longness while annosity is (rare) fullness of years; great length of life; agedness; lengthiness of life span.

lengthiness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The property of being lengthy, longness.
  • The lengthiness of his talk bored most of his audience nearly to sleep.

    annosity

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) Fullness of years; great length of life; agedness; lengthiness of life span.
  • * 1654 : , The Reign of King Charles, an History faithfully and impartially delivered and disposed into Annals , page 136
  • Robert Parr…the wonder of our times for annosity and long life.
  • * 1994 : , volume 332, issues 7,879–7,882, page 84
  • […] the guardian of this columbarium?—?he missed that one?—?is plainly not a pedant at all. He just has a quirky love of words. Johnson wishes him annosity of his […]

    References

    * (1742 edition)
    ??''Annosity
    , Agedness. * A Compleat Dictionary English and Dutch, to which is added a Grammar, for both Languages'', by William Sewel [compil.] and Egbert Buys [ed.] (1766), volume 1, page 21
    ??ANNOSITY, ''Ouderdom
    . * Dictionary of the Synonymous Words and Technical Terms in the English Language'', by James Leslie (1806), page 7
    ??AGEDNESS. ''s.
    Annosity. * Encyclopædia Perthensis; or, Universal Dictionary of the Arts, Sciences, Literature, &c.'' (2nd Ed.; 1816), volume II, page 183
    ??ANNOSITY, agedne?s. ''Bailey.
    * “ †a?nnosity]” listed in the [2nd Ed.; 1989