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ANCIENTNESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

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)

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