EARLINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does earliness mean? 

• EARLINESS (noun)
  The noun EARLINESS has 1 sense:

1. quality of coming early or earlier in time

  Familiarity information: EARLINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EARLINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Quality of coming early or earlier in time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

timing (the time when something happens)

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

forwardness (an advanced stage)

antecedence; antecedency; anteriority; precedence; precedency; priority (preceding in time)

Antonym:

lateness (quality of coming late or later in time)

Derivation:

early (at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time)

early (being or occurring at an early stage of development)

early (of an early stage in the development of a language or literature)