Venerability
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Venerability is a noun meaning The qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc.
Meaning
The qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc.
Example Sentences
Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon.
The far-flungness of the word, the phenomenological pleasure of finding it variously transformed by Ransom's modernity and Beowulf’s venerability made me feel vaguely something for which again I only found the words years later.
Word Forms
- venerabilities
Synonyms for venerability
Depending on context, synonyms include agedness, hoariness, venerableness, ancientness, antiquity, age.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include vetustity, reveredness, respectability, vincibility, verecundity, venenosity.
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