datedness
- noun
- /ˈdeɪtɪdnəs/
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anticuado
- In our process of discovery, we’d also likely find clips' datedness amusing.
Examples
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Despite their apparent datedness, however, the papers brought together in this volume still stand as the latest and most highly regarded expressions of contemporary Russian scholarship on the American Revolution. (n18)
Academic text (2003) -
While attributing a certain datedness to the record, Savage confirms the confrontational nature of its musical aesthetic: "The Ramones now sounds laughably simple; at the time it was brutal and divisive."
Academic text (2014) -
The datedness of the furniture in the room made it feel like we had stepped back in time.
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Her fashion choices reflected a certain datedness that is no longer trendy.
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Many critics noted the datedness of the film's special effects compared to modern standards.
Synonyms
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9.9
The state of belonging to an earlier time
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9.9
An old-fashioned word, phrase, or style no longer used in everyday speech
Being not modern and like things from the past
A state of being no longer modern or in style
A state of being old-fashioned and no longer used
A state when something is no longer used or useful
Something old and out of date in style or technology
A style that looks like it is from earlier times
Being old or having a style from the past
Antonyms
How Dated
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Datedness comes from the common word date ('a specific day') and the ending -ness ('the state of'), and it helps you remember something that clearly belongs to a past day or time and so looks old-fashioned or out of style.