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UP-TO-DATENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The property of belonging to the present time
Example:
the currency of a slang term
Synonyms:
currency; currentness; up-to-dateness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("up-to-dateness" is a kind of...):
nowness; presentness (the quality of being the present)
Attribute:
current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)
noncurrent (not current or belonging to the present time)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "up-to-dateness"):
contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness (the quality of being current or of the present)
Derivation:
up-to-date (reflecting the latest information or changes)
up-to-date (in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style)
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