1
as in maturity
the state of being an old person
the advanced agedness of the patient was immediately obvious to the emergency room staff
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as in antiquity
the state of being something old
the sheer ancientness of the Middle East impresses many first-time visitors
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Noun
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Over the next few months, the fry will gorge themselves on thousands of tiny crustaceans each week, while the institution’s Animal Care team will be hard at work to ensure that as many as possible can reach full maturity.—
Jared Ranahan,
Forbes.com,
15 June 2025 -
When an onion reaches its maturity, its leaves will die back and its tops will flop over.—
Sheryl Geerts,
Better Homes & Gardens,
13 June 2025
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First and foremost, the movie is a period piece revisiting the horrors of the AIDS epidemic with actual horror, transforming HIV-positive patients into humans whose bodies gradually turn to marble, like X-Men crossed with the Greek antiquities wing at the Louvre.—
Jordan Mintzer,
HollywoodReporter,
19 May 2025
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America had brought into the world an agent of displacement no less profound than what antiquity had known — the raw power of capitalism.—
Andrew Moore,
New York Times,
15 May 2025
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Rodney, by one account, was two hundred and eighty pounds by age twelve.—
Mark Kriegel
June 4,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2025
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Elliot was brought in at age 30 in late 2024 to turn around the label’s declining market share (from 10 percent at the end of 2020, down to 5.7 percent last year).—
Ethan Millman,
HollywoodReporter,
4 June 2025
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“Agedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/agedness. Accessed 18 Jun. 2025.
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