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PASTNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being past
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("pastness" is a kind of...):
timing (the time when something happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pastness"):
recency; recentness (a time immediately before the present)
Antonym:
futurity (the quality of being in or of the future)
presentness (the quality of being the present)
Derivation:
past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)
