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Pastness

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The quality or condition of being past.

n. The emotion or feeling evoked by memory: "the one wave of recaptured pastness with which many a gifted writer makes his debut” ( John Simon).

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The state or quality of being past.

n. The result or product of being past.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. The quality of being past.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. the quality of being past

Word Usage

"In other words, all music — regardless of age — is ideally immediate and timeless, and as the technology of reproducing music — regardless of age — improves, the "pastness" of music falls away."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

timing

Hyponym

recency recentness