elderliness

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

elderly +‎ -ness

[edit] Noun

elderliness (uncountable)

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