ANCIENTNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Extreme oldness

Synonyms:

ancientness; antiquity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("ancientness" is a kind of...):

oldness (the quality of being old; the opposite of newness)

Derivation:

ancient (very old)

ancient (belonging to times long past especially of the historical period before the fall of the Western Roman Empire)