aging

English

Alternative forms

• ageing (British)

Etymology

By surface analysis, age +‎ -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈeɪ.d͡ʒɪŋ/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪdʒɪŋ

Verb

aging

1. present participle and gerund of age

Noun

aging (countable and uncountable, plural agings)

(US, Canada)

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. (gerontology) 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.

   Synonym: senescence

4. Wear; wear and tear.

Derived terms

• accelerated aging
• antiaging
• anti-aging
• inflammaging
• maraging
• photoaging

 

Translations

the process of becoming older or more mature

• Albanian: plakje (sq) f
• Arabic: شَيْخُوخَة f (šayḵūḵa), هَرَم (ar) m (haram)
• Azerbaijani: qocalma (of people), köhnəlmə (of things)
• Belarusian: старэ́нне n (starénnje)
• Bulgarian: старе́ене n (staréene)
• Catalan: envelliment (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 老化 (zh) (lǎohuà)

• Czech: stárnutí (cs) n
• Danish: aldring c
• Dutch: veroudering (nl) f
• Estonian: vananemine
• Finnish: vanheneminen (fi), ikääntyminen (fi)
• French: vieillissement (fr) m
• Galician: envellecemento (gl) m
• Georgian: დაბერება (dabereba), მომწიფება (momc̣ipeba), ასაკის მატება (asaḳis maṭeba)
• German: Altern (de) n, Alterung f
• Hebrew: הִזְדַּקְּנוּת f (hizdak'nút)
• Hindi: आयुवृद्धि f (āyuvŕddhi)
• Hungarian: öregedés (hu), idősödés
• Indonesian: penuaan (id)
• Italian: invecchiamento (it) m
• Japanese: 老化 (ja) (ろうか, rōka)
• Kazakh: қартаю (qartaü)
• Korean: 노화(老化) (ko) (nohwa), 로화(老化) (ko) (rohwa) (North Korea)
• Kyrgyz: картаюу (kartayuu)
• Latvian: novecošana f
• Lithuanian: senavimas m
• Macedonian: стареење n (stareenje)
• Malay: penuaan (ms)
• Ngazidja Comorian: uɗuhazi class 11
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aldring (no) m or f

• Persian: پیری (fa) (piri), پیرش (pireš), سالخوردگی (fa) (sâlxordegi)
• Polish: starzenie się (pl) n
• Portuguese: envelhecimento (pt) m
• Romanian: îmbătrânire (ro) f
• Russian: старе́ние (ru) n (starénije)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ста̏ре̄ње n

  Roman: stȁrēnje (sh) n

• Slovak: starnutie n
• Slovene: staranje n
• Spanish: envejecimiento (es) m
• Swedish: åldrande (sv) n
• Tajik: пиршавӣ (piršavi), кӯхнашавӣ (küxnašavi), солхурдаги (solxurdag-i)
• Turkish: yaşlanma (tr)
• Ukrainian: старі́ння n (starínnja), ста́ріння n (stárinnja)
• Uzbek: qarish (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự lão hoá
• Volapük: bäldikam

the deliberate process of making something (such as an antique) appear older than it is

• Danish: ældning c
• Portuguese: envelhecimento (pt) m

senescence

• Finnish: vanheneminen (fi)
• French: sénescence (fr) f

Adjective

aging (comparative more aging, superlative most aging)

1. Becoming elderly.

   The aging artist could no longer steadily hold the brush.

Usage notes

• Comparative and superlative forms are rare.

Derived terms

• nonaging
• unaging

 

Translations

becoming elderly

• Bulgarian: застаряващ (bg) (zastarjavašt)
• Finnish: vanheneva (fi), ikääntyvä (fi)
• French: vieillissant (fr)
• German: alternd (de)
• Hungarian: korosodó (hu), öregedő (hu)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: aldrende (no)

  Nynorsk: aldrande

• Romanian: îmbătrânire (ro)
• Russian: старе́ющий (ru) (staréjuščij)
• Spanish: senescente (es)

Anagrams

• Gangi, nigga