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Definition of Old-fashionedness
1. Noun. The property of being no longer fashionable.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Old-fashionedness
Literary usage of Old-fashionedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1884)
"Now, one of the things that has struck me most in America, from the anthropological
point of view, is a certain element of old-fashionedness. ..."
2. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1887)
"But alas ! their old-fashionedness may only go back to an intermediate period.
It may be a kind of middle-age collapse. If you want the old-fashioned sort, ..."
3. Apostolic Life as Revealed in the Acts of the Apostles by Joseph Parker (1883)
"Mention the date and measure of your old-fashionedness ? ... But alas !
their old-fashionedness may only go back to an intermediate period. ..."
4. Biographical Lectures by George Dawson (1887)
"Dry old-fashionedness, and nothing but old-fashionedness." I have said that the
reproach brought against Wordsworth by Professor Wilson,—that there is an ..."
5. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1893)
"... almost invariably possess, makes up that delightful attribute which we, for
lack of a more adequate term, have learned to call old-fashionedness. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"So that both had, at least mentally, the "stamp of old-fashionedness," the "antique
cast that always seems to promise ill-luck and penury. ..."
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