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retroactiveness

retroactiveness noun: the state or condition of being retroactive.

Noun

retroactiveness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being retroactive.
    • Then, too, it was divorced from the disagreeable features of retroactiveness and partisanship which had inspired the particularly bitter condemnation of the Salary Acts of 1816 and 1873.1908, Hubert Bruce Fuller, “Congressional Salary Legislation”, in The North American Review, volume 188, number 635, page 551
    • The author reviews the history of the Wholesale Price Index, the Consumer Price Index, and Parity Index, pointing out the wide variation that in the past has characterized frequency of revision (intervals of revision), retroactiveness of revisions . . . .1960, “Summaries of Papers Delivered at the 119th Annual Meeting”, in Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 55, number 290, page 371
    Synonyms:
    retroactivity

Synonyms of retroactiveness

Origin of retroactiveness

From retroactive + -ness.

Questions about retroactiveness

What does retroactiveness mean?
Retroactiveness means the state or condition of being retroactive.
What part of speech is retroactiveness?
Retroactiveness is a noun.

Words near retroactiveness in the dictionary

  1. retroactions
  2. retroactive
  3. retroactive rape
  4. retroactive rapes
  5. retroactively
  6. retroactiveness
  7. retroactivities
  8. retroactivity
  9. retroacts
  10. retroaddition
  11. retroadditions

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