aheadness

noun

aheadness

noun

Etymology From ahead + -ness.

1

The quality of being ahead.

The central oddity of the past future stems from this fact, when considered in the light of the principle of sense: how can it make sense for the speaker to commit himself to aheadness as calculated from a past vantage point?2010, Peter Harder, Functional Semantics, page 359:

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