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CURRENTNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does currentness mean?
• CURRENTNESS (noun)
The noun CURRENTNESS has 1 sense:
1. the property of belonging to the present time
Familiarity information: CURRENTNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of belonging to the present time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
currency; currentness; up-to-dateness
Context example:
the currency of a slang term
Hypernyms ("currentness" is a kind of...):
nowness; presentness (the quality of being the present)
Attribute:
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
noncurrent (not current or belonging to the present time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "currentness"):
contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness (the quality of being current or of the present)
Derivation:
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
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