Word.ws English Dictionary

pastness

pastness noun: the state or quality of being past.

Noun

pastness (countable and uncountable, plural pastnesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being past.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being past.

Forms of pastness

pluralpastnesses

Origin of pastness

From past + -ness.

Questions about pastness

What does pastness mean?
Pastness means the state or quality of being past.
What part of speech is pastness?
Pastness is a noun.
What is the plural of pastness?
The plural of pastness is pastnesses.

Words near pastness in the dictionary

  1. pastizzerias
  2. pastizzi
  3. pastless
  4. pastlessness
  5. pastmaster
  6. pastness
  7. pastnesses
  8. Paston
  9. Pastonian
  10. pastophori
  11. pastophoria

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: pastness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “pastness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/pastness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.