oldness

IPA/ˈəʊldnəs/
IPA/ˈoʊldnəs/

oldness — 名詞

1. the condition of having existed for a long time, or the feeling that something i

1.名詞C1
釋義

古老；陳舊感

存在已久的狀態或感覺

the condition of having existed for a long time, or the feeling that something is no longer new — for example, the worn pages of a family Bible, or the faded paint on a wooden barn.

例句

Yara could smell the oldness of the wooden chest as soon as Xiu opened its heavy lid.

Xiu 一掀開沉重的箱蓋，Yara 立刻就聞到那只木箱的古老氣味。

the oldness of + [physical object] expressing age through the senses

The oldness of the village church gave the wedding photographs a deep, timeless feeling.

村裡那座教堂的古老感，讓婚禮照片增添了一份深沉、跨越時光的氛圍。

the oldness of + [place] used to evoke history or atmosphere

常見搭配
  • the oldness of
  • smell the oldness
  • feel the oldness
  • a comforting oldness
  • the oldness of the wood / stone / paper
同義詞
  • antiquity

    more formal; usually for objects, buildings, or eras of great historical age

  • ancientness

    near-synonym; emphasises being from a remote past, even rarer than 'oldness'

  • age

    the everyday word; can mean either the number of years or the quality of being old

反義詞
  • newness

    the direct opposite; common defining contrast in dictionaries

  • freshness

    the opposite when 'oldness' suggests staleness rather than venerable age

文法句型

the oldness of [noun]

用法筆記

Uncountable; almost always appears as 'the oldness of [something]'. The plain noun 'age' is far more common in everyday speech — 'oldness' tends to appear in descriptive or literary writing where the writer wants to foreground the felt quality of being old rather than a measurable span of years.

常見錯誤

I am surprised by his oldness.
I am surprised by his age.
for a person's years, use 'age', not 'oldness'.
The oldnesses of the two houses were similar.
The two houses were similar in age.
'oldness' is uncountable and has no plural form.

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常用片語

  • smell the oldness
  • feel the oldness
  • a comforting oldness

介系詞搭配

  • the oldness of