EARLINESS
Dictionary entry overview: What does earliness mean? • EARLINESS (noun)
The noun EARLINESS has 1 sense:
1. quality of coming early or earlier in time
Familiarity information: EARLINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• EARLINESS (noun)
Meaning:
Quality of coming early or earlier in time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("earliness" is a kind of...):
timing (the time when something happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "earliness"):
forwardness (an advanced stage)
antecedence; antecedency; anteriority; precedence; precedency; priority (preceding in time)
Antonym:
lateness (quality of coming late or later in time)
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