insuetude

Meanings

nouninsuetude (uncountable)

archaicuncountableThe state or quality of being unaccustomed; lack of habit.
Absurdities are great or small in proportion to custom or insuetude.
1828, Walter Savage Landor, “Rousseau and Malesherbes”, in Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume III, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC
Synonyms: unaccustomedness

nounThe state or quality of being unaccustomed; lack of habit.

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From Latin insuetūdō, from in- (“not”) + suēscō (“to be accustomed”) + -tūdō.

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