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say it: ahb-suh-LES-uhns
obsolescence is a noun meaning "the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date". It is pronounced /ˌɑbsəˈlɛsəns/ — ahb-suh-LES-uhns. It carries one recorded sense.
the process of becoming obsolete; falling into disuse or becoming out of date
“a policy of planned obsolescence”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for obsolescence come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.