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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(rare) The state, condition, or quality of being an antique or of being old; antiquity..
[...] there will be good reproductions (some of the reproductions themselves are over 100 years old, and even current ones will some day enjoy their own antiquehood).
I searched my area of the Eastern Hundreds for clues, landmarks, anything of significance, and drew a circle with my school compass, a derelict brass pivot aspiring to antiquehood.
Alas, after comparing the current list with the list for my college class of 2005, I seem to be approaching antique-hood—[...]
Use antiquehood when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Antiquehood means (rare) The state, condition, or quality of being an antique or of being old; antiquity..
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[...] there will be good reproductions (some of the reproductions themselves are over 100 years old, and even current ones will some day enjoy their own antiquehood).
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