Earliness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Earliness \Ear"li*ness\, n.
     The state of being early or forward; promptness.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  earliness
       n : quality of coming early or earlier in time [ant: {lateness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  28 Moby Thesaurus words for "earliness":
     anachronism, antecedence, antecedency, antedate, antedating,
     anteriority, anticipation, earlier state, historical error,
     lateness, metachronism, misdate, misdating, mistiming,
     parachronism, past time, postdating, precedence, precedency,
     precession, predating, preexistence, priority, prochronism,
     prolepsis, status quo ante, tardiness, unpunctuality