old-fashionedness

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Noun1.old-fashionedness - the property of being no longer fashionable
oldness - the quality of being old; the opposite of newness
quaintness - the quality of being quaint and old-fashioned; "she liked the old cottage; its quaintness was appealing"
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Its old-fashionedness, though, connects to The Elements of Style, making me wonder whether part of what attracted Kalman to the book was a certain pastness.
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Their romance is played subtly, despite a certain old-fashionedness, while the setting is well-realised, an idyllic Austrian aristocrat's paradise under threat of Nazi invasion.
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Its old-fashionedness resides in operating on only one level of meaning--albeit a level that is detailed in complex ways.
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But I do like the 'old-fashionedness' that you still find around the Oscars, with people getting dressed up."
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But when you're talking about the county fair, you've got to get more of that old-fashionedness back into it."
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