Lateness

3 definitions found

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

  Lateness \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.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lateness
       n : quality of coming late or later in time [ant: {earliness}]

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

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "lateness":
     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