TARDINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does tardiness mean? 

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

1. the quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TARDINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality or habit of not adhering to a correct or usual or expected time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

timing (the time when something happens)

Antonym:

punctuality (the quality or habit of adhering to an appointed time)

Derivation:

tardy (after the expected or usual time; delayed)

 Context examples 

She was quite pained by the severity of his father's reproof, which seemed disproportionate to the offence; and much was her concern increased when she found herself the principal cause of the lecture, and that his tardiness was chiefly resented from being disrespectful to her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)