The quality of being old, ancient, or from a former era; the characteristic of having great age or belonging to past times.
From antique (adjective) plus -ness (quality or state). Standard English formation creating abstract nouns from adjectives, used since the Middle English period.
There's something almost poetic about how -ness turns descriptions into moods: 'antiqueness' isn't just 'oldness,' it's a FEELING. It's what you sense walking into a 300-year-old library—a kind of temporal weight that surrounds you.
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