passéness

Yet there was an air of passéness about the room too, which gave it a kind of sentimental interest.

1886, Temple Bar, page 61

As if to emphasize Mrs. Robinson’s passéness, the screen suddenly seems to drain of color and freeze-frame in devitalized black-and-white.

1997, Daphne Merkin, Dreaming of Hitler: Passions & Provocations, page 16

While Lorde’s focus on the erotic as a feminine resource is exemplary of this broadening of feminine desire—she highlights the nurturing and egalitarian aspects of femininity and argues that pornography emphasizes anti-sociality and inauthentic feelings—this charge of passéness enables people to assign some of Lorde’s ideas (about pornography, for example) to the realm of a disavowable lesbian feminism even as Lorde herself is often figured as a proto-queer theorist.

2018, Amber Jamilla Musser, Sensual Excess: Queer Femininity and Brown Jouissance, page 56

The masque’s passéness conferred on it a degree of recognizability that made it especially available for self-critique.

2020, Connie Scozzaro, Cruel Intentions: Rape and Deliberation in the Time of Shakespeare, page 103