From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Lateness \Late"ness\, noun The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: quality of coming late or later in time [ant: {earliness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
80 Moby Thesaurus words for "lateness": afterlife, anachronism, antedating, anticipation, brand-newness, callowness, dewiness, earliness, following, freshness, future time, gloss of novelty, greenness, hangover, historical error, immaturity, impropriety, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, inconvenience, inexpedience, infelicity, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intactness, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, irrelevance, maidenhood, metachronism, mint condition, misdate, misdating, mistiming, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, next life, novelness, novelty, nowness, originality, parachronism, postdate, postdating, posteriority, prematurity, presentness, pristineness, prochronism, prolepsis, provenience, rawness, recency, recentness, remainder, sequence, strangeness, subsequence, succession, supervenience, supervention, tardiness, uncommonness, unfamiliarity, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unpunctuality, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unusualness, virginity, wrongness
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