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Sign in to savethumb|Supercentenarian Maria Branyas Morera (1907–2024) celebrating her 117th birthday A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who is 110 or older. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of significant age-related diseases until shortly before the maximum human lifespan is reached.
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thumb|Supercentenarian Maria Branyas Morera (1907–2024) celebrating her 117th birthday A supercentenarian, sometimes hyphenated as super-centenarian, is a person who is 110 or older. This age is achieved by about one in 1,000 centenarians. Supercentenarians typically live a life free of significant age-related diseases until shortly before the maximum human lifespan is reached.
==Etymology== The term "supercentenarian" has been used since 1832 or earlier. Norris McWhirter, editor of The Guinness Book of Records, used the term in association with age claims researcher A. Ross Eckler Jr. in 1976, and the term was further popularised in 1991 by William Strauss and Neil Howe in their book Generations.