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Fossil vs Fossilhood - What's the difference?

fossil | fossilhood |

As nouns the difference between fossil and fossilhood

is that fossil is the mineralized remains of an animal or plant while fossilhood is the state of being a fossil (mineralized remains).

fossil

English

(wikipedia fossil)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The mineralized remains of an animal or plant.
  • (paleontology) Any preserved evidence of ancient life, including shells, imprints, burrows, coprolites, and organically-produced chemicals.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
    • , author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record.}}
  • (linguistics) A fossilized term.
  • (figuratively) Anything extremely old, extinct, or outdated.

    • Derived terms

    * * * fossilisation, fossilization * fossilise, fossilize * * * * * *

    See also

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    fossilhood

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • (rare) The state of being a fossil (mineralized remains).
  • * 2002 , J Neil C Garcia, The Likhaan book of poetry and fiction, 2000
    • Tossed by the waves, I felt like a trilobite on its way to fossilhood .
  • * 2008 , Alan Weisman, The World Without Us
    • In one of our stranger follies, we deny ourselves and our loved ones the opportunity of a true lasting memorial — fossilhood — with extravagant protections...
  • (rare) The state of being a fossil (old-fashioned).
  • * 2001 , Bruce Michelson, Literary wit
    • A seductive and dangerous media revolution was under way, and literary fossilhood , about which he had once teased Emerson...
  • * 2006 , Alexander Maclaren, Expositions of Holy Scripture
    • It has come to be a mark of narrowness and fossilhood to be a devout believer in Christ and His Cross.