aging

The process of becoming older or more mature.

Adjective

  1. Becoming elderly.
    • The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.

Origin

By surface analysis, age + -ing.

Forms

more aging most aging ageing

Derived

nonaging unaging

Noun

  1. The process of becoming older or more mature.
  2. The deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear (or, in science fiction, become) older than it is.
  3. The accumulation of damage to macromolecules, cells, tissues and organs with the passage of time; the progressing loss of health, mobility, vibrancy and body functionality, resulting in biological death.

    Synonyms: senescence

  4. Wear; wear and tear.

Forms

agings ageing

Derived

accelerated aging antiaging anti-aging inflammaging maraging photoaging

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of age

Forms

ageing