Desuetude State Latin Meaning Noun Disuse Inactivity You’ll

You’ll often see desuetude used with its collocate, fall, to indicate that something gradually deteriorated into a state of disuse, as in: “fallen into desuetude.”

Desuetude comes from the Latin prefix de-, meaning “away from,” and the Latin verb suesco, meaning “to become accustomed.” If you neglect things for too long, you become unaccustomed to them, and eventually, they’re no longer useable. They fall into desuetude

through neglect.