exnovation means the removal of innovation, for example by settling upon a working strategy and not seeking further changes. Lexicurio rates it Rare gem — a strength score of 75 out of 100.
Why “exnovation” is a great word
EXNOVATION — [Noun] The deliberate removal or cessation of an innovation, often by standardizing a working practice and ceasing to seek further changes. From innovation, with the prefix in- (meaning 'into') replaced by ex- (meaning 'out of' or 'away from'); coined by Rein De Wilde in 2000. Unlike obsolescence, which implies a passive fading out due to age or disuse, or decommissioning, which formally retires a physical asset, exnovation is an active, strategic choice to halt a line of inquiry. It is the factory floor reverting to a clunking, proven machine after a year of digital glitches; the gardener forgoing experimental hybrids to return to heirloom seeds; the laboratory filing away a promising but perpetually unstable compound. It is the small, profound wisdom that not all growth is forward.
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- The removal of innovation, for example by settling upon a working strategy and not seeking further changes.