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Another word for lateness

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lateness

n.

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

Antonyms anticipation*, earliness, promptness.

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Another word for lateness

noun

The quality or condition of not being on time:

belatedness, tardiness. See time

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In spite of the lateness of the hour, the rest of us were far too hyper for sleep.
On the other land, the lateness of occurrence of any particular mathematical idea is usually closely correlated with its intrinsic difficulty.
Fall off in quality and carefulness in proportion to their lateness; though an honourable exception must be made in favour of those proceeding from Kirman and Yazd in Persia, mostly dating from the 17th and 18th centuries.
II) are regarded as suggestive of legend; to say nothing of the lateness of all the documents relating to the wars of Og, and the remoteness of Bashan from the regions of the Israelites' wandering.
The lateness of its arrival in the West was due to the fact that its centres of influence were not in immediate contact with Greek and Roman civilization.

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