fustiness
Old closed-room odor
Fustiness is the quality of smelling stale, musty, or airless—like a room that hasn't been opened in years: the fustiness of the old library.
By extension, fustiness describes outdated attitudes or stubborn resistance to change: the fustiness of academic tradition.
The adjective is fusty.
No longer fresh
- airlessHaving no atmosphere
- stuffyLacking fresh air
- unventilatedWithout air circulation
- stagnantWithout movement or progress
dank · close · oppressive · stifling · rank · frowzy · mothballed · rancid
Belonging to earlier times
- outdatedNo longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- outmodedNo longer in fashion
- datedOld-fashioned or courted
Victorian · Edwardian · bygone · timeworn · moth-eaten · archaic · obsolete · behind-the-times
stale
No longer fresh
- airlessHaving no atmosphere
- stuffyLacking fresh air
- unventilatedWithout air circulation
stagnant · dank · close · oppressive · stifling · rank · frowzy · mothballed · rancid · sour
old-fashioned
Belonging to earlier times
- outdatedNo longer in use
- antiquatedOld and outdated
- outmodedNo longer in fashion
dated · Victorian · Edwardian · bygone · timeworn · moth-eaten · archaic · obsolete · behind-the-times · stuffy
mildew
Fungus from dampness
spores · moisture · fungus · deterioration · dankness · humidity · decomposition · moist · clammy · damp
- stuffy roomstaleness, airlessness, stagnation, poor ventilation, foul air
fustinessfreshness
State of being unspoiled
airiness · fresh air · crispness · breeziness · ventilation
fustinessfreshness
State of being unspoiled
modernity · contemporaneity · innovation · progressiveness · newness