释义 |
ˌout-of-ˈdateness [f. out-of-date adj. phr. + -ness.] The state or condition of being out-of-date; obsoleteness.
1915E. Carpenter Healing of Nations xvii. 208 Finally..one realizes the monstrosity and absurdity of the present conflict—its anachronism and out-of-dateness in the existing age of human thought and feeling. 1928Sunday Dispatch 30 Dec. 10/5 Consider the rich opportunity to tell the good man of his stuffiness, his out-of-dateness. 1930A. Huxley Vulgarity in Lit. i. 3 It took several centuries to reduce Dante's guide-book to out-of-dateness. 1940‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 103 They continue to be read in spite of their obvious out-of-dateness. |