Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state of being unaccustomed or unused; unusualness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of use or habit.
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- noun archaic The state or quality of being
unaccustomed ; absence ofhabit .
Etymologies
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Latin insuetudo, from insuetus unaccustomed; prefix in- not + suetus, past participle of suescere to be accustomed.
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Examples
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_ Absurdities and enormities are great in proportion to custom or insuetude.
Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection Walter Savage Landor 1819
pavonine commented on the word insuetude
The state or quality of being unaccustomed; absence of use or habit.
December 10, 2007