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up-to-dateness

up-to-dateness

6.7
How current and relevant something is now
  • noun
  • /ˌʌp tə ˈdeɪtnəs/
translation icon : actualidad
  • To achieve greater up-to-dateness in your research, make sure to consult the most recent publications and sources.

Examples

  • The up-to-dateness of information on this website ensures that users always receive the latest news and updates.

  • The 'up-to-dateness' of youth therefore consists in their being closer to the 'present' problems... and in the fact that they are dramatically aware of a process of destabilization and take sides in it.

    Academic text (1996)

  • The teacher emphasized the importance of up-to-dateness in curriculum materials to keep students engaged with current events.

Synonyms

currency
vsup-to-dateness
35 3.3

Being widely accepted or used at a particular time

focuses on being current or relevant rather than popularity or use
modernity
vsup-to-dateness
18 5.8

A condition of life now that shows new ideas, styles, or technology

is about present relevance rather than stylistic character or trend
topicality
vsup-to-dateness
1 7.4

How much something is about things people care about now

is broader, meaning being current or relevant in general
modernness
vsup-to-dateness
1 4.4

A quality of being new and up-to-date in style and ideas

focuses on present relevance rather than simply matching current style
currentness
vsup-to-dateness
6.5

Being up to date with present events and information

stresses relevance to now rather than mere temporal presence

How Current

modernity
18 5.8
currency
35 3.3
up-to-dateness
6.7
obsolescence
9 7.7
datedness
8.2

Surface Forms

up-to-dateness singular
up-to-datenesses plural

Morphology

up-to-dateness = up-to-date (transparent) = up-to-date + ness

Formed by adding the noun-forming suffix '-ness' to the adjective 'up-to-date', so the noun clearly denotes the quality of being current.

Etymology

Up-to-dateness comes from the phrase up-to-date, which puts up, to and date together to mean 'up to the current day', like when you update information to make it new. So up-to-dateness is the quality of being 'current' or relevant now.