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earliness

earliness

1 4.9
Happening before the usual or expected time
  • noun
  • /ˈɪrli.nəs/
translation icon : anticipación
  • Their pioneer status, then, depends on their perceived "earliness," a perspective made possible only by where we situate ourselves, here at the end of the twentieth century, where vaudeville, silent movies, and Broadway shows from the beginning of this same century have now become synonyms for nostalgia and the "good old days."
  • earliness index

Examples

  • The present study was designed to explore the genetic potential of different cotton cultivars and the relationship of seed cotton yield with different earliness, fiber, and yield-related traits.

    Academic text (2014)
  • My only regret is that the earliness of this update may cause some people to accidentally miss it.

    Blog text (8)
  • "Now," he said, "I see we have a messenger, despite the earliness of the hour."

    Fiction book (1993)
  • I guess why We know why and the the earliness of them, they're not very close like they normally would be to the November vote.

  • The earliness index showed negatively significant phenotypic correlations with bolls per plant.

    Academic text (2014)
  • We were back on an interstate, and the weather was in that blissful state of earliness and generous rebate to which my years in central New Jersey had accustomed me.

    Fiction book (1997)
  • Seed cotton yield had positive genotypic correlation with bolls per plant, plant height, boll weight, staple length and strength, earliness index, and GOT.

    Academic text (2014)
  • Jost and Cothren (2000) and Badr (2003) also studied earliness and other yield-contributing traits in different cotton cultivars and observed varied performance.

    Academic text (2014)
  • The negative indirect effects were shown by traits like bolls per plant, staple length and strength, earliness index, and days taken to first square. Negative indirect effects of boll weight on bolls per plant were reported by Rauf et al. (2004).

    Academic text (2014)
  • The earliness of the train allowed us to arrive well before our scheduled appointment.

Synonyms

prematureness
vsearliness
7.7

Something that happens earlier than expected or wanted

is neutral in tone and not necessarily unwanted

Antonyms

10 1.6

Arriving after the time people expect you to be there

How Early

earliness
1 4.9
promptness
4 3.5
lateness
10 1.6

Surface Forms

earliness singular
earlinesses plural

Morphology

earliness = early (transparent) = early + ness

Clearly formed by the adjective 'early' plus the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to indicate the quality of being early.

Etymology

The word earliness comes from early plus the ending -ness, and early comes from an old word meaning 'before'. So earliness means the 'state' of happening before the usual time.