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up-to-dateness

up-to-dateness noun: the quality or degree of being up to date.

Noun

up-to-dateness (usually uncountable, plural up-to-datenesses)

  1. (usually) The quality or degree of being up to date.
    • Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him.1923, "Mirrors of Moscow," Time, 07 April, 1923, https://web.archive.org/web/20130817190039/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,715222,00.html
    • […] he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5, w:Nineteen Eighty-Four

Forms of up-to-dateness

pluralup-to-datenesses

Origin of up-to-dateness

From up-to-date + -ness.

Questions about up-to-dateness

What does up-to-dateness mean?
Up-to-dateness means the quality or degree of being up to date.
What part of speech is up-to-dateness?
Up-to-dateness is a noun.
What is the plural of up-to-dateness?
The plural of up-to-dateness is up-to-datenesses.

Words near up-to-dateness in the dictionary

  1. up-tight
  2. up-tighter
  3. up-tightest
  4. up-to-code
  5. up-to-date
  6. up-to-dateness
  7. up-to-datenesses
  8. up-to-datism
  9. up-to-no-gooder
  10. up-to-no-gooders
  11. up-to-the-minute

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