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Terms vs Fossilhood - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between terms and fossilhood

is that terms is while fossilhood is (rare) the state of being a fossil (mineralized remains).

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    fossilhood

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  • (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.