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- noun The quality of being
dated ; beingout-of-date .
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Examples
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If any "datedness" can be laid at the door of space opera as a genre, it's in that it's hit the wall of "Where's my Jetson's car?".
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I note this while adding that such a discrepancy did not occur to me as I was reading but only now; the story moved too quickly for me to care about "datedness", a provably recent photograph of yet another of Sandow's long-dead friends.
Isle of the Dead Fred Perry 2009
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I note this while adding that such a discrepancy did not occur to me as I was reading but only now; the story moved too quickly for me to care about "datedness", a provably recent photograph of yet another of Sandow's long-dead friends.
Archive 2009-07-01 Fred Perry 2009
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It's a bit difficult to get past the datedness of the Sex and the City-meets-the-Marvel-Universe pitch, which feels further anchored to the late '90s/early' 00s by the preview's speed-dating scene.
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Frankly, I think the datedness of these titles can lend them an air of authenticity and add to their entertainment value.
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The way everyone says "Internet" without the customary "the" article before it -- along with Gumbel's pronunciation of an e-mail address with a pause instead of "dot" -- adds to the datedness of the proceedings.
1994 'Today' show 'What is Internet?' clip offers a reminder: We were all newbies once Rob Pegoraro 2011
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Shivani: In significant ways Kapitoil is also a comment on the utter datedness of the vast majority of ethnic/minority/immigrant fiction being published in America today.
Anis Shivani: The Best Post-9/11 Novel: Huffington Post Interviews Teddy Wayne, Author of "Kapitoil" 2010
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As for EE ‘Doc’ Smith, well, the very datedness of his works I find too much of a hurdle.
They don’t work for me – books and authors who don’t appeal « It Doesn't Have To Be Right… 2010
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Ossian poems, for instance, embodied readers 'aspirations to a kind of immortality produced not by fame, or the continuity of tradition, but by difference and datedness (Underwood 237-242).
Culture and Discontinuity (in the 1840s and in Foucault) 2008
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Shivani: In significant ways Kapitoil is also a comment on the utter datedness of the vast majority of ethnic/minority/immigrant fiction being published in America today.
Anis Shivani: The Best Post-9/11 Novel: Huffington Post Interviews Teddy Wayne, Author of "Kapitoil" 2010
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