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Definition of archaism:

An ancient, antiquated, or old- fashioned, word, expression, or idiom; a word or form of speech no longer in common use.
Antiquity of style or use; obsoleteness.

Synonyms:

archaicism.

Usage examples:

And so he goes out in quest of purity and truth, and brings home an elaborate archaism.

- "Emerson and Other Essays", John Jay Chapman.
In order to arrive at their effects, they shrink from no sacrifice, from no excess; slang, neologism, forced construction, archaism, barbarous epithet, nothing comes amiss to them, so long as it tends to render a sensation.

- "Figures of Several Centuries", Arthur Symons.
Unfriend, quoted above, is a quite unnecessary archaism, and so is such a phrase as With this Borrow could not away, in the sense of 'this Borrow could not endure.

- "Reviews", Oscar Wilde.