| Pronunciation: | | l'eytnus
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| | Definition: | | [n] quality of coming late or later in time |
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| | Antonyms: | | earliness |
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| | See Also: | | posteriority, subsequence, subsequentness, timing |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Late"ness\, n.
The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the
lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the
lateness of the season.
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| | Related Terms: | | afterlife, anachronism, antedating, anticipation, brand-newness, callowness, dewiness, earliness, following, freshness, future time, gloss of novelty, greenness, hangover, historical error, immaturity, impropriety, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, inconvenience, inexpedience, infelicity, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intactness, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, irrelevance, maidenhood, metachronism, mint condition, misdate, misdating, mistiming, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, next life, novelness, novelty, nowness, originality, parachronism, postdate, postdating, posteriority, prematurity, presentness, pristineness, prochronism, prolepsis, provenience, rawness, recency, recentness, remainder, sequence, strangeness, subsequence, succession, supervenience, supervention, tardiness, uncommonness, unfamiliarity, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unpunctuality, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unusualness, virginity, wrongness |
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