hoariness

as in antiquity
the state of being something old the hoariness of that joke is such that Noah probably used it to entertain his fellow passengers on the ark

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antiquity
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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
  • 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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“Hoariness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoariness. Accessed 19 Jun. 2025.

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