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Synonyms for lateness

noun

belatedness, tardiness, retardation, protraction, prolongation, slowness, backwardness, advanced hour, late date; see also delay 1.

Antonyms anticipation*, earliness, promptness.

See lateness in Webster's New World Roget's A-Z Thesaurus II

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