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yesterdayness

yesterdayness noun: the property of being, or seeming to be, in the past.

Noun

yesterdayness (uncountable)

  1. The property of being, or seeming to be, in the past.
    • Perhaps his splendid ability to employ film gesture in still-photography dusts off that quaint aura of death, that yesterdayness associated with photography.1999, Flash Art, numbers 207-209, page 101
    • […] that what we know and feel under this name pleasure or enjoyment and as present pleasure is then, into the bargain and as soon as possible, determined as past, affected with past, with yesterdayness.2017, Jacques Derrida, The Beast and the Sovereign, volume II, page 52

Origin of yesterdayness

From yesterday + -ness.

Questions about yesterdayness

What does yesterdayness mean?
Yesterdayness means the property of being, or seeming to be, in the past.
What part of speech is yesterdayness?
Yesterdayness is a noun.

Words near yesterdayness in the dictionary

  1. yesterday's gone
  2. yesterday's news
  3. yesterday-today-and-tomorrow
  4. yesterday-today-and-tomorrows
  5. yesterday-today-tomorrow
  6. yesterdayness
  7. yesterdays
  8. yesterdom
  9. yestere'en
  10. yestereen
  11. yestereens

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