'Lateness' definitions:
Definition of 'lateness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Quality of coming late or later in time [ant: earliness]
Definition of 'Lateness'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'lateness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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