zeerust

== English == === Etymology === Coined by British science fiction writer and humorist Douglas Adams and British television producer and writer John Lloyd in The Meaning of Liff (1983), from Zeerust, the name of a town in South Africa. By folk etymology, connected semantics to rust. === Noun === zeerust (uncountable) Datedness of something originally intended to seem futuristic. For more quotations using this term, see Citations:zeerust. ==== See also ==== retrofuturism