Desuetude

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A state of disuse or inactivity.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. disuse, obsolescence (for example, the state of a custom that is no longer observed nor practised)
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The cessation of use; disuse; discontinuance of practice, custom, or fashion.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Discontinuance of use, practice, custom, or fashion; disuse: as, many words in every language have fallen into desuetude.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a state of inactivity or disuse
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    disuse   
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    disposability    subsector    moke    tothat    aphasiology