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EARLINESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Quality of coming early or earlier in time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("earliness" is a kind of...):
timing (the time when something happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earliness"):
forwardness (an advanced stage)
antecedence; antecedency; anteriority; precedence; precedency; priority (preceding in time)
Antonym:
lateness (quality of coming late or later in time)
Derivation:
early (at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time)
early (being or occurring at an early stage of development)
early (of an early stage in the development of a language or literature)
