Definitions for old-fashionedness

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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

old′ fash′ioned(n.)

  1. (sometimes caps.) a cocktail made with whiskey, bitters, water, and sugar.

    Category: Viniculture/Winemaking

Origin of old fashioned:

1900–05

old′-fash′ioned(adj.)

  1. of a kind that is no longer in style.

  2. favored or prevalent in former times:

    old-fashioned ideas.

  3. having the conservative behavior, ways, ideas, or tastes of earlier times.

Origin of old-fashioned:

1645–55

old′-fash′ioned•ness(n.)

Princeton's WordNet

  1. old-fashionedness(noun)

    the property of being no longer fashionable


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