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PASTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pastness mean? 

PASTNESS (noun)
  The noun PASTNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being pastplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


PASTNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being past

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

timing (the time when something happens)

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

recency; recentness (a time immediately before the present)

Antonym:

futurity (the quality of being in or of the future)

presentness (the quality of being the present)

Derivation:

past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)


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