Meaning & use
agelessness
Last updated
Meaning
noununcountableapproving
The quality of seeming not to grow older or to be unaffected by the passing of time.
Grammar: Never takes a plural or an article: the agelessness of the song.
Patterns
- the agelessness of something
Critics praised the agelessness of her voice.
There is a strange agelessness about the old mountains.
The agelessness of the fairy tale explains why children still love it.
Common combinations
- an air of agelessness
- The old actor kept an air of agelessness well into his eighties.
- the agelessness of art
- We talked about the agelessness of art in the museum.
- a sense of agelessness
- Walking through the ruins gave her a sense of agelessness.
- timeless agelessness
- The garden had a timeless agelessness that calmed visitors.
Synonyms and how they differ
- timelessness
- Timelessness describes things that never go out of style, whereas agelessness often describes a person who does not look older.
- eternity
- Eternity means endless time itself, not just the appearance of not aging.
- youthfulness
- Youthfulness stresses looking or acting young, while agelessness means no age seems to apply at all.
Opposites
Word family
Commonly confused: agelessness or agelessness?
agelessness vs agelessness
Do not confuse it with agedness, which means being old; agelessness means seeming to have no age at all.
Practice
What does the agelessness of a melody suggest?
Choose one answer.
Agelessness means not seeming to age. The second option confuses it with the age of the composer, which is not what the word describes.
Make it your own
Write a sentence using “agelessness”, then check it and compare it with the examples above.