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Definition of Pastness
1. Noun. The quality of being past.
Specialized synonyms: Recency, Recentness
Antonyms: Futurity, Presentness
Derivative terms: Past
Definition of Pastness
1. Noun. The state or quality of being past. ¹
2. Noun. The result or product of being past. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Pastness
1. the state of being past or gone by [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pastness
Literary usage of Pastness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Principles of Psychology by William James (1918)
"What is the original of our experience of pastness, from whence we get the meaning
... We shall see that we have a constant feeling aui generis of pastness, ..."
2. Valuation: Its Nature and Laws, Being an Introduction to the General Theory by Wilbur Marshall Urban (1909)
"On the other hand, it is equally easy to see why feelings with presumptions and
judgments as presuppositions have no mark of pastness. ..."
3. The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology by Boris Sidis (1914)
"In other words, the representation, although experienced, as a present psychic
element, must have a glow of pastness about it. Representation is a present ..."
4. The Elements of Psychology by David R. Major (1914)
"Now, the thought of 'pastness' arises and is supported or corroborated by a simple
process of association. The event remembered occurred in a certain year, ..."
5. Mind and Conduct: Morse Lectures Delivered at the Union Theological Seminary by Henry Rutgers Marshall (1919)
"This is displayed in two phases, viz., pastness and ... image, or idea, etc., must
have attached to it the qualification either of pastness, ..."
6. Can We be Sure of Mortality?: A Lawyer's Brief by William Atwell Cheney (1910)
"It utterly fails as do all such schematic explanations, to account for the sense
of pastness. It provides and can provide no place for consciousness or ..."
7. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1904)
"... the familiar sensation occurs that it serves merely to give to the latter a
fringe of pastness in which there is no appreciable indication of date. ..."
8. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"... not constituents, of pastness which apparently remains virtually ... we have
not already transgressed these in attempting any account of 'pastness. ..."
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