Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The property or condition of being old-fashioned; similarity to what is now past or out of date; retention of characteristics formerly prevalent but now exceptional.
- noun Conduct or demeanor resembling that of an old person; precociousness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the property of being no longer fashionable
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Examples
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I was just wondering, and you can put it down to my old-fashionedness, if it would have any kind of a negative impact on the boys?
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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I was just wondering, and you can put it down to my old-fashionedness, if it would have any kind of a negative impact on the boys?
As Husbands Go Susan Isaacs 2010
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To her relief, for all their old-fashionedness, the Shadowhunters seemed to believe in modern plumbing and hot and cold running water.
City of Glass Cassandra Clare 2009
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Her having you on all fours in her surgery seems a trifle unconventional if you'll excuse my old-fashionedness!
Went to My Doctor Gordie 2009
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To her relief, for all their old-fashionedness, the Shadowhunters seemed to believe in modern plumbing and hot and cold running water.
Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series Cassandra Clare 2009
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Anyway: on the surface, the old-fashionedness is in the freedom.
The Penderwicks: A Summer Tale of 4 Sisters, 2 Rabbits and a Very Interesting Boy 2006
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Anyway: on the surface, the old-fashionedness is in the freedom.
Archive 2006-01-01 2006
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What may have smelled sharp, bitter, spicy, acrid and dry at first – with a dash of aldehydes for a good measure of old-fashionedness – turned into a quite interesting yet very wearable fragrance.
Archive 2006-05-01 Ayala Sender 2006
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There's some cognitive dissonance between the modernity of the format and the old-fashionedness of the content - it is of British soldiers in riot gear on the streets of Belfast.
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Poor Starkey, when young, had that peculiar stamp of old-fashionedness in his face which makes it impossible for a beholder to predicate any particular age in the object.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Various
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