zeerust
Datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristicDatedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic.
Meaning
1 senses(uncountable)Datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic.
Origin
Coined by British science fiction writer and humorist Douglas Adams and British televisionCoined by British science fiction writer and humorist Douglas Adams and British television producer and writer John Lloyd in The Meaning of Liff (1983), from Zeerust, the name of a town in South Africa. By folk etymology, connected semantics to rust.
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Word family
1 related wordsRelatedretrofuturism
Lessons for this word
1 lessons- A1Countable and uncountable nouns — Because it can be uncountable