oldness

Other forms of oldness

plural

oldnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about oldness

What does oldness mean?

oldness means "the opposite of youngness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in oldness?

oldness has 2 syllables and divides as old-ness under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is the opposite of oldness?

The recorded antonyms are youngness, newness.

Is oldness a common word?

oldness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.