preteriteness

English

Etymology

From preterite +‎ -ness.

Noun

preteriteness (uncountable)

  1. Alternative form of preteritness.
    • 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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