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Definition of Lateness
1. Noun. Quality of coming late or later in time.
Specialized synonyms: Posteriority, Subsequence, Subsequentness
Antonyms: Earliness
Derivative terms: Late, Late, Late, Late, Late
Definition of Lateness
1. 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.
Definition of Lateness
1. Noun. The property of being late ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Lateness
1. the state of being late [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lateness
Literary usage of Lateness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of English Literature by George Saintsbury (1898)
"The reasons of this extraordinary lateness, and , the still more extraordinary
lagging of prose (of which, Scottish except laws, letters, ..."
2. Comparison of an Eight-hour Plant and a Ten-hour Plant by Josephine Clara Goldmark, Mary Della Hopkins (1920)
"It is clear, therefore, that little time is lost at the factory by lateness,
since even with the subtractions we have noted the actual time worked is only ..."
3. Co-operation at Home and Abroad: A Description and Analysis by Charles Ryle Fay (1908)
"SWITZERLAND : lateness of growth due to Efficiency of Old Methods. IRELAND :
lateness of growth due to Backwardness of People—Reasons for Absence of (a) ..."
4. Co-operation at Home and Abroad: A Description and Analysis by Charles Ryle Fay (1908)
"SWITZERLAND : lateness of growth due to Efficiency of Old Methods. IRELAND :
lateness of growth due to Backwardness of People—Reasons for Absence of (a) ..."
5. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... and it is a compensation for the extreme lateness and comparative scantiness
of Scottish literature that it was thus able to produce the latest, ..."
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