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currentness

currentness noun: the state or quality of being current.

Noun

currentness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being current.
    • Other vertues have had little or no currantnesse at all in this age: But valour is become popular by reason of our civill warres[…].1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC
  2. (obsolete) Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.
    • When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language[…]sound other than most full of sweetness?1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC

Synonyms of currentness

Origin of currentness

From current + -ness.

Questions about currentness

What does currentness mean?
Currentness means the state or quality of being current.
What part of speech is currentness?
Currentness is a noun.

Words near currentness in the dictionary

  1. currente calamo
  2. currenter
  3. currentest
  4. currentless
  5. currently
  6. currentness
  7. currents
  8. currentwise
  9. Currer
  10. Curreri
  11. Curreris

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