anecdotagen.
/ˈanᵻkdəʊtɪdʒ/, /ˌanᵻkˈdəʊtɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈænəkˌdoʊdɪdʒ/, /ˌænəkˈdoʊdɪdʒ/ 1. humorous (frequently depreciative). Old age, regarded as a time characterized by the telling of anecdotes; garrulous old age.
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the world > people > person > old person > [noun] > garrulous old age
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1765 J. Wilkes Let. 6 Aug. in European Mag. & London Rev. (1798) Jan. 7/2 He [sc. Voltaire] is the only exception I know of a man above seventy not being sunk into his anecdotage.
1915 Bookman Feb. 653 In his anecdotage..he liked to tell of his adventures among the London literati.
2008 R. Tallis Kingdom of Infinite Space 32 From bubbling infancy to drooling anecdotage.
2. Anecdotes collectively; anecdotal writing or content.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > anecdote > [noun] > collectively
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1823 T. De Quincey in London Mag. Mar. 261/1 The public being..quite unable to buy books of luxury and anecdotage.
1907 H. Adams Educ. Henry Adams xiv. 191 The whole of British literature in the nineteenth century was antiquarianism or anecdotage.
2010 K. Egan Learning in Depth 121 To escape from endless anecdotage.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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