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- n. The quality of being dated; being out-of-date.
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“If any "datedness" can be laid at the door of space opera as a genre, it's in that it's hit the wall of "Where's my Jetson's car?".”
“I note this while adding that such a discrepancy did not occur to me as I was reading but only now; the story moved too quickly for me to care about "datedness", a provably recent photograph of yet another of Sandow's long-dead friends.”
“It's a bit difficult to get past the datedness of the Sex and the City-meets-the-Marvel-Universe pitch, which feels further anchored to the late '90s/early' 00s by the preview's speed-dating scene.”
“Frankly, I think the datedness of these titles can lend them an air of authenticity and add to their entertainment value.”
“The way everyone says "Internet" without the customary "the" article before it -- along with Gumbel's pronunciation of an e-mail address with a pause instead of "dot" -- adds to the datedness of the proceedings.”
“Shivani: In significant ways Kapitoil is also a comment on the utter datedness of the vast majority of ethnic/minority/immigrant fiction being published in America today.”
“As for EE ‘Doc’ Smith, well, the very datedness of his works I find too much of a hurdle.”
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“Ossian poems, for instance, embodied readers 'aspirations to a kind of immortality produced not by fame, or the continuity of tradition, but by difference and datedness (Underwood 237-242).”
“A.P. got into the fray returning to the idea of book covers by talking about the datedness of covers while the text within the story may not be so dating.”
“You ... can love a song for its datedness, for the social history its anachronism reveals.”
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