oldness

Roget category 124

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.6. Time
›› 1.6.2. Relative time

#124. Oldness

noun

oldness etc. adj.^† — age, antiquity — cobwebs of antiquity.
maturity — decline, decay — senility etc. 128.
seniority, eldership, primogeniture.
archaism etc. (the past) 122 — thing of the past, relic of the past — megatherium^† — Sanskrit.
tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law.

verb

be old etc. adj. — have had its day, have seen its day — become old etc. adj. — age, fade, senesce.

adjective

old, ancient, antique — of long standing, time-honored, venerable — elder, eldest — firstborn.
prime — primitive, primeval, primigenous^† — paleolontological, paleontologic, paleoanthropological, paleoanthropic^†, paleolithic, primordial, primordinate^† — aboriginal etc. (beginning) 66 — diluvian^†, antediluvian — protohistoric^† — prehistoric — antebellum, colonial, precolumbian — patriarchal, preadamite^† — paleocrystic^† — fossil, paleozoolical, paleozoic, preglacial^†, antemundane^† — archaic, classic, medieval, Pre-Raphaelite, ancestral, black-letter.
immemorial, traditional, prescriptive, customary, whereof the memory of man runneth not to the whereof the memory of man runneth not to the contrary — inveterate, rooted.
antiquated, of other times, rococo, of the old school, after-age, obsolete — out of date, out of fashion, out of it — stale, old-fashioned, behind the age — old-world — exploded — gone out, gone by — passe, run out — senile etc. 128 — time worn — crumbling etc. (deteriorated) 659 — secondhand.
old as the hills, old as Methuselah, old as Adam^†, old as history.
[geological eras (list, starting at given number of years bp)] Archeozoic [5,000,000,000], Proterozoic [1,500,000,000], Paleozoic [600,000,000], Mesozoic [220,000,000], Cenozoic [70,000,000]. [geological periods] Precambrian, Cambrian [600,000,000], Ordovician [500,000,000], Silurian [440,000,000], Devonian [400,000,000], Mississippian [350,000,000], Pennsylvanian [300,000,000], Permian [270,000,000], Triassic [220,000,000], Jurassic [180,000,000], Cretaceous [135,000,000], Tertiary [70,000,000], Paleogene [70,000,000], Neocene [25,0000,000], Quaternary [1,000,000]. [geological epochs (list, starting at 70,000,000 years bp)] Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent.

adverb

since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah.

phrase

vetera extollimus recentium incuriosi [Lat.] [Tacitus].

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