anecdotage








noun

  1. anecdotes collectively.

noun Facetious.

  1. the state of being advanced in age and strongly inclined to tell reminiscent anecdotes: Grandfather is in his anecdotage.

noun

  1. anecdotes collectively
  2. jocular talkative or garrulous old age
n.

“anecdotes collectively,” 1823, from anecdote + -age. As a jocular coinage meaning “garrulous old age” it is recorded from 1835, and led to anecdotard.

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