Classes Abstract Relations Time Relative Time Oldness
Oldness
Nouns
oldness etc. adj.
age, antiquity
cobwebs of antiquity. maturity
decline, decay
senility etc. Age . seniority, eldership, primogeniture. archaism etc. (the past) [Retrospective time.] The Past
thing of the past, relic of the past
megatherium
Sanskrit. tradition, prescription, custom, immemorial usage, common law.
Verbs
be old etc. adj.
have had its day, have seen its day
become old etc. adj.
age, fade, senesce.
Adjectives
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) Beginning
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out of date, out of fashion, out of it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. Age
time worn
crumbling etc. (deteriorated) Deterioration
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 [Intrinsicality , , Proterozoic [Existence , Sage , , Paleozoic [Will , , Mesozoic [Exteriority , , Cenozoic [[Interrupted sequence.] Discontinuity . [geological periods] Precambrian, Cambrian [Will , , Ordovician [Sage , , Silurian [Variegation , , Devonian [Fragrance , , Mississippian [[Channel for the passage of water.] Conduit , Pennsylvanian [[Forcible ingress.] Insertion , Permian [Transference , , Triassic [Exteriority , , Jurassic [[Indefinite space.] Space , Cretaceous [Untimeliness , , Tertiary [[Interrupted sequence.] Discontinuity , Paleogene [[Interrupted sequence.] Discontinuity , Neocene [[Absolute quantity.] Quantity , Quaternary [Existence , . [geological epochs (list, starting at [Interrupted sequence.] Discontinuity ] Paleocene, Eocene, Oligocene, Miocene, Pliocene, Pleistocene, Recent.
Adverbs
since the world was made, since the year one, since the days of Methuselah.