Meanings
- uncountableThe quality of being archaic.
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Most importantly perhaps, it is evident that the impression of archaicity which any reader will experience on reading The Lord of the Rings is partly due to three simple lexical causes: the “overuse” of words borrowed from nineteenth-century fiction (e.g. yonder, journey [v], topmost), the avoidance of words associated with the modern world and the comparatively dense use of new coinages, unusual grammatical patterns, rare or obsolescent words.
2021, Thomas Kullmann and Dirk Siepmann, Tolkien as a Literary Artist: Exploring Rhetoric, Language and Style in The Lord of the Rings, Palgrave-Macmillan 2021
Synonyms & antonyms
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Translations
Polish archaiczność, archaika
- archaicznośćthe quality of being archaic
- archaikathe quality of being archaic
Portuguese arcaicidade
- arcaicidadethe quality of being archaic
Russian архаичность
- архаичность (arxaičnostʹ)the quality of being archaic
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archaicity. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/archaicity
“archaicity.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/archaicity. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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