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OLD-FASHIONEDNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does old-fashionedness mean?
• OLD-FASHIONEDNESS (noun)
The noun OLD-FASHIONEDNESS has 1 sense:
1. the property of being no longer fashionable
Familiarity information: OLD-FASHIONEDNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of being no longer fashionable
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("old-fashionedness" is a kind of...):
oldness (the quality of being old; the opposite of newness)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "old-fashionedness"):
quaintness (the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned)
Derivation:
old-fashioned (out of fashion)
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