venerability

English

Etymology

From venerable +‎ -ity, from Latin venerabilitas.

Noun

venerability (countable and uncountable, plural venerabilities)

1. The qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc.

   Synonyms: agedness, hoariness, venerableness; see also Thesaurus:oldness

   Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon.

   • 1999, Seamus Heaney, “Introduction”, in Beowulf, London: Faber and Faber, page xxv:

     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.

Translations

the qualities of being venerable

Armenian: պատկառանք (hy) (patkaṙankʻ), պատկառելիություն (hy) (patkaṙeliutʻyun) (rare) Finnish: kunnioitettavuus (fi) German: Ehrwürdigkeit f Italian: venerabilità f Spanish: venerabilidad f