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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun lateness has 1 sense

• lateness(n = noun.attribute) Array - quality of coming late or later in time; Array
is a kind of timing
has particulars: posteriority, subsequence, subsequentness
Antonym: earliness
Derived forms adjective late₁, adjective late₆, adjective late₅, adjective late₃, adjective late₂

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THESAURUS

lateness

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

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lateness

Lateness

N lateness, tardiness, delay, delation, cunctation, procrastination, deferring, deferral, postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution, protraction, prolongation, Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case, leeway, high time, moratorium, holdover, late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely, delayed, postponed, dilatory, delayed, in abeyance, late, lateward, backward, late in the day, at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last, ultimately, after time, behind time, after the deadline, too late, too late for, slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure, ex post facto, sine die, nonum prematur in annum, against the sunbeams serotine and lucent, ie meglio tardi che mai, deliberando saepe perit occasio.

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