preteriteness

noun

preteriteness

noun

Etymology From preterite + -ness.

1

The quality or state of being past.

  • c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere A valley in the moon could scarce have been lonelier , could scarce have suggested more strongly the feeling of preteriteness and extinction

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