venerability

noun

Etymology: From venerable + -ity, from Latin venerabilitas.

1. The qualities of being venerable; great age, respectability, infirmity, etc.

   “Because of the professor's venerability his opinion was often asked, but his actual attendance in committee meetings was not insisted upon.”

   “The far-flungness of the word, the phenomenological pleasure of finding it variously transformed by Ransom's modernity and Beowulf’s venerability made me feel vaguely something for which again I only found the words years later.”