Word of the Day – Desuetude

Desuetude (noun)

des-wit-yude

A state of disuse.

Early 17th century (in the sense ‘cessation’): from French, from Latin desuetudo, from desuet- ‘made unaccustomed’, from the verb desuescere, from de- (expressing reversal) + suescere ‘be accustomed’.

Example sentences

“The dockland had fallen into desuetude”