Library / English Dictionary

LATENESS

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Quality of coming late or later in time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("lateness" is a kind of...):

timing (the time when something happens)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "lateness"):

posteriority; subsequence; subsequentness (following in time)

Antonym:

earliness (quality of coming early or earlier in time)

Derivation:

late (being or occurring at an advanced period of time or after a usual or expected time)

late (at or toward an end or late period or stage of development)

late (of a later stage in the development of a language or literature; used especially of dead languages)

late (of the immediate past or just previous to the present time)

late (after the expected or usual time; delayed)

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