2. Noun. Slowness; backwardness. ¹
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Definition of Belatedness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Belatedness
Literary usage of Belatedness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1886)
"As respects Carlyle's ' belatedness,' then, may not the fact that his element
was to be prose and not verse count for something ? ..."
2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1905)
"But it is decidedly interesting reading, and the reviewer must confess that the
belatedness of this review is due to the tendency to peruse these details ..."
3. The Scientific Monthly by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1915)
"... civilized world looking on us with more or less scorn because of our belatedness.
In this age everywhere the cry is efficiency, always more efficiency. ..."
4. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society by Royal Astronomical Society (1895)
"Such a belatedness as nine minutes shows either that we are not entitled to use
the three figures after the decimal point in the seconds in the periodic ..."
5. Recollections by John Morley (1917)
"You will find yourself astounded when you return home and see how common — nay,
how universal — is this curious belatedness of mind, and especially among ..."
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