单词 | agerasia |
释义 | agerasian. rare. The quality of not growing old; the non-appearance of the signs of age.Originally and chiefly in dictionaries. ΚΠ 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Agerasia... a vigorous old Age. 1749 J. Barrow Dict. Medicum Universale Agerasia, that state which maintains the health and vigour of youth, in an advanced age. 1863 L. H. Grindon Life (1873) vi. 82 Agerasia belongs only to the soul: this alone lives in perpetuity of youth. 1919 G. M. Gould Practitioner's Med. Dict. (ed. 3) 30/1 Agerasia,... Vigorous old age; age without its wonted feebleness and decay. 2006 I. S. Hamilton Psychol. Ageing i. 23 One can think of 70-year-olds who look like stereotypical older people (grey hair, wrinkled skin, etc.), but one can also recall ‘well-preserved’ individuals who lack these features (agerasia). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1706 |
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