PASTNESS

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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past (earlier than the present time; no longer current)