insuetude
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English
Etymology
From Latin insuetudo, from insuetus (“unaccustomed”), from in- (“not”) + suetus, past participle of suescere (“to be accustomed”).
Pronunciation
Noun
insuetude (uncountable)
- (archaic) The state or quality of being unaccustomed; lak of habit.
- Synonym: unaccustomedness
- 1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Rousseau and Malesherbes”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, , →OCLC:
- Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
References
- “insuetude”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.