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What is the noun for aging?

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age
  1. The whole duration of a being being alive, whether animal, vegetable, or other kind
  2. The amount of full years/months/days/hours etc. which someone, or something, has been alive
  3. (uncountable) That part of the duration of a being or a thing which is between its beginning and any given time; specifically the size of that part.
  4. (uncountable) The latter part of life; an advanced period of life, eld; seniority; state of being old.
  5. (countable) One of the stages of life
  6. (uncountable) Mature age; especially, the time of life at which one attains full personal rights and capacities.
  7. (countable) The time of life at which some particular power or capacity is understood to become vested.
  8. (countable) A particular period of time in history, as distinguished from others.
  9. (countable) A great period in the history of the Earth.
  10. (countable) A century; the period of one hundred years.
  11. The people who live at a particular period.
  12. (countable) A generation.
  13. (countable, hyperbolic) A long time.
  14. (poker) The right of the player to the left of the dealer to pass the first round in betting, and then to come in last or stay out; also, the player holding this position; the eldest hand.
  15. Synonyms:
      16. lifetime, duration, years, days, generation, span, summers, winters, age group, life span, number of years, peer group, length of existence, length of life, stage of life, elderliness, maturity, oldness, agedness, ancientness, senility, dotage, senescence, seniority, hoariness, eld, caducity, antiquity, autumn, maturation, afterlife, afternoon, evening, matureness, adolescence, adulthood, old age, declining years, advancing years, middle age, wear and tear, advanced years, the autumn of one's life, the winter of one's life, senectitude, infirmity, golden years, decrepitude, feebleness, debility … more
  16. Examples:
      17. “What utility has the institution ever been to any country during its age of 114 years, throughout the civilized world?”
      “His voice just continues to improve with age.”
      “Lying in a cozy bed these many years later, I felt like it was an age ago, a different lifetime.”
aging
  1. (intransitive) The process of becoming older or more mature.
  2. (transitive) Allowing something to become older.
  3. (transitive) The deliberate act of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is.
  4. (gerontology) Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time
  5. (euphemistic) Elderly person. Only as a collective plural in "the aging"
  6. Synonyms:
      7. maturation, maturing, senescence, senility, growing old, development, growth, progress, evolution, ageing, coming of age, progression, growing, evolving, advancement, flowering, evolvement, transformation, ripening, blossoming, blooming, flourishing, fruition, advancing, maturity, emergence, advance, expansion, coming-of-age, unfolding, buildup, metamorphosis, burgeoning, spread, furtherance, rise, improvement, unraveling, upgrowth, extension, unravelling, change, movement, enhancement, spreading, flow, succession, escalation, refinement, adaptation … more
  7. Examples:
      8. “It is as though I can see not the aging of my face but the story of my life.”
ageing
  1. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) The process of becoming older or more mature.
  2. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain) The deliberate act of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is.
  3. (Australia, New Zealand, Britain, gerontology) Becoming senescent; accumulating damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time.
  4. Synonyms:
      5. maturation, maturing, senescence, senility, growing old, development, growth, progress, evolution, coming of age, aging, progression, growing, evolving, advancement, flowering, evolvement, transformation, ripening, blossoming, blooming, flourishing, fruition, advancing, maturity, emergence, advance, expansion, coming-of-age, unfolding, buildup, metamorphosis, burgeoning, spread, furtherance, rise, improvement, unraveling, upgrowth, extension, unravelling, change, movement, enhancement, spreading, flow, succession, escalation, refinement, adaptation … more
  5. Examples:
      6. “It is as though I can see not the ageing of my face but the story of my life.”
ager
  1. One who or that which ages something.
  2. (euphemistic) One who is aging; an elderly person.
  3. Examples:
      4. “The typical third ager is also educated, with 86 percent having been to college.”
      “In the discourse of the so-called third and fourth age, the third ager is often defined to be an active consumer of technology.”
      “It takes him all the time to shake, and it takes all his money to buy his ager medicine.”
agerasia
  1. An outward appearance more youthful than one's true age
  2. Examples:
      3. “Already have I shown you how the public has tacitly accepted the psychological agerasia before it had even been clearly demonstrated.”
agelessness
  1. The state or quality of being ageless.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. constancy, changelessness, endurance, persistence, immutability, endlessness, invariability, timelessness, durability, continuance, continuity, stability, duration, perpetuity, lastingness, unchangeableness, longevity, perpetuation, imperishability, indestructibility, fixedness, eternalness, durableness, dependability, everlastingness, sureness, perdurability, reliability, immortality, perenniality, steadfastness, robustness, eternality, survival, permanency, fixity, finality, solidity, permanence, enduring nature, lasting nature, ceaselessness, continuousness, abidance, continuation, eternity, subsistence, steadiness, forever, infinity … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Clisi knew that one of the others could not be with a faerie or elf without losing their immortality and agelessness.”
      “Look at any of the six movies that the Oak Street is reviving this week, and you'll find an agelessness unknown to most other films.”
      “Nanotechnology is central to their vision of a future of agelessness, immortality, and rebirth.”
agemate
  1. One who is the same age as another person.
  2. Examples:
      3. “An agemate of Miriam's could say, 'it looks like she doesn't respect her brother', 'it looks like' being a literal and significant component of the agemate's criticism.”
agedness
  1. The state or quality of being aged.
  2. Synonyms:
      3. age, ancientness, elderliness, maturity, oldness, hoariness, seniority, senescence, antiquity, senectitude, old age, golden years, senility, dotage, decrepitude, infirmity, eld, caducity, second childhood, advanced years, years, weakness, declining years, feebleness, superannuation, debility, advancing years, advanced age, autumn of life, winter of life, frailty, enfeeblement, autumn, invalidity, incapacity, sickliness, incapacitation, debilitation, malaise, decline, retirement age, golden age, evening of life, ageing, aging, oldhood, vetustity, eldership, venerableness, archaicism … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “His agedness was characterized by his loss of balance and his inability to get up from his sofa without first kneeling on the floor.”
      “Often, visitors learn hard truths at AgeLab: many older adults don't like products, like big-button phones, that telegraph agedness.”
      “The school-age population as a percentage of the working population indicates the youthfulness or the agedness of a population.”
aged
  1. Old people, collectively.
ages
  1. plural of age
  2. A long time.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. days, centuries, years, eternity, forever, months, weeks, aeons, eons, yonks, lifetime, donkey's years, donkey's ears, years and years, blue moon, dog's age, indefinitely long period, eternities, forevers, moons, cycles, longs, blue moons, coon's ages, long time, long, an age, a long time, eon, very long time, age, ages and ages, coon's age, moon, hours, aeon, days on end, years on end, forever and a day, cycle, many years, decades, for ever, hours on end, months on end, month of Sundays, a lifetime, seemingly forever, months of Sundays, endlessness … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “I haven't seen my family for ages!”
agemates
  1. plural of agemate
  2. Examples:
      3. “In the meantime, their husbands are at work or idle with their agemates.”
      “And playing off a line from Finn, it's not obvious to me that American students are so much farther down the intelligence scale than their agemates in other lands.”
ageings
  1. plural of ageing
  2. Synonyms:
      3. maturation, senescence, senility, elderliness, agedness, age, oldness, ancientness, senectitude, maturity, seniority, agings, development, growth, progress, evolution, coming of age … more
agings
  1. plural of aging
  2. Synonyms:
      3. maturation, senescence, senility, oldhood, eld, seniority, ageings, maturity, ancientness, elderliness, senectitude, oldness, agedness, age, ageing, aging, old age, dotage, decrepitude, infirmity, advanced years, hoariness, caducity, declining years, antiquity, second childhood, years, weakness, feebleness, advancing years, golden years, debility, superannuation, retirement age, advanced age, autumn of life, winter of life, frailty, enfeeblement, invalidity, incapacity, sickliness, incapacitation, debilitation, malaise, autumn, decline, golden age … more
agers
  1. plural of ager
  2. Examples:
      3. “Starring Eric Idle as a director, it portrays everyone in Hollywood as either effete New Agers or venal bullies.”
      “We'll be hearing from a few people who would definitely be classed as New Agers, but with a bent for ecological activism.”
      “The third photograph is of a retired railway man who took up a new life as a volunteer in a museum in Austria staffed almost entirely by third agers.”
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