belatedness
- noun
- /bɪˈleɪtɪdnəs/
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tardanza
- The belatedness of their arrival meant they missed the beginning of the presentation.
Examples
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She felt a sense of belatedness when she realized she had missed the meeting.
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The belatedness of his response caused confusion among his colleagues.
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This, this seems to well express his sense of belatedness and and of the everything having in some sense been done already.
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Ah, the belatedness of prophecy!
Academic text (1996) -
Jarnathan! - Pardon my belatedness.
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In short, Star Trek VI accepts its own belatedness and tries to make the best of it.
Academic text (2000) -
His driving ambition was to establish himself within the pantheon of great explorers, but his belatedness made this a daunting task.
Academic text (2003) -
In Wheeler's efforts to overcome the burden of his belatedness, he occasionally resorted to desperate, even bizarre, gambits.
Academic text (2003) -
As a figure in the fallen-woman plot, Esther must, it seems, accede to the exigencies of belatedness and finality.
Academic text (2016) -
Freud might conjecture that the melancholy of Birkerts and Naipaul reflects an inability to mourn, to overcome a debilitating sense of belatedness.
Fiction book (2000)
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Etymology
The word belatedness comes from be- + late + -ness; late means 'after the expected time' and -ness turns that into a 'state', so belatedness is the state of being late or delayed.