outdatedness

noun

as in staleness

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  1. staleness
  2. banality
Noun
  • The pilot of Adult Swim’s President Curtis, created by Dan Harmon and James Siciliano, seems to confirm the staleness and lack of utility for the new series.
    — Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 24 July 2026
  • Occasional callbacks to actual Curb bits only draw attention to the material’s staleness.
    — Judy Berman, Time, 24 June 2026
Definition of staleness
Noun
  • Of course, when a person live-streams long enough, banality can eventually give way to horror.
    — Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 12 Aug. 2026
  • For all the women looking up at me to think of me not as a crying heap on a toilet whose baby never latched but as someone who found meaning in all of our daily banalities.
    — Danielle Parker, CBS News, 4 Aug. 2026
Definition of banality
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“Outdatedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/outdatedness. Accessed 17 Aug. 2026.

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