archaicity

/ɑː(ɹ)keɪˈɪsɪti/

archaicity means the quality of being archaic. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

archaicity is pronounced /ɑː(ɹ)keɪˈɪsɪti/.

Etymology

From archaic + -ity.

noun

The quality of being archaic.“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 ”