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pastness

Definitions of pastness
  1. noun
    the quality of being past
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    antonyms:
    futurity
    the quality of being in or of the future
    presentness
    the quality of being the present
    types:
    recency, recentness
    a time immediately before the present
    type of:
    timing
    the time when something happens
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