Word Meanings - OBSOLETENESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of OBSOLETENESS)

• Desuetude
• Disuse
• obsoleteness
• non-observance

Related words: (words related to OBSOLETENESS)

• OBSOLETENESS
  Indistinctness; want of development. (more info) 1. The state of being obsolete, or no longer used; a state of desuetude.
• DESUETUDE
  The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion. The desuetude abrogated the law, which, before, custom had established. Jer. Taylor. (more info) use, disuse; de + suescere to become used or accustomed: cf. F.
• DISUSE
  1. To cease to use; to discontinue the practice of. 2. To disaccustom; -- with to or from; as, disused to toil. "Disuse me from . . . pain." Donne.