fossildomn.
/ˈfɒsldəm/, U.S. /ˈfɑs(ə)ldəm/ The state, condition, or fact of being a fossil. Chiefly figurative.
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the world > time > change > absence of change, changelessness > maintaining state or condition > [noun] > opponent of change > condition of
fossildom1869
1869 New Eclectic Mag. 5 216 If he writes a book on the department that he teaches, he will find in his own spirit an increasing tendency to dogmatism, which is fossildom.
1883 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 15 213 Is there not something of intellectual fossildom in..the ancient rite of exorcising..places supposed to be haunted by unwelcome spirits?
1905 J. Rickaby Development 48 Protestantism, even Anglican Protestantism, is essentially fossildom.
1963 Musical Times 104 51/1 It was a good idea..to rescue three of Beethoven's Irish Folk Songs..from fossildom.
2002 Canberra Times (Nexis) 3 Aug. 3 An intact skeleton of a marsupial lion..diverted from the obscurity of fossildom to bask under halogen light in the Western Australian Museum.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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