desuetude
C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
FormalRegister
A state of disuse or inactivity into which something has fallen.
The old spa town had lapsed into a genteel desuetude, its fountains dry and its ballrooms shuttered.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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