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pastness
past P0101300 (păst)adj.1. No longer current; gone by; over: His youth is past.2. Having existed or occurred in an earlier time; bygone: past events; in years past.3. a. Earlier than the present time; ago: 40 years past.b. Just gone by or elapsed: in the past few days.4. Having served formerly in a given capacity, especially an official one: a past president; a past inmate of a cell.5. Grammar Of, relating to, or being a verb tense or form used to express an action or condition prior to the time it is expressed.n.1. The time before the present.2. a. Previous background, career, experiences, and activities: an elderly person with a distinguished past.b. A former period of someone's life kept secret or thought to be shameful: a family with a checkered past.3. Grammar a. The past tense.b. A verb form in the past tense.adv. So as to pass by or go beyond: He waved as he walked past.prep.1. Beyond in time; later than or after: past midnight; a quarter past two.2. Beyond in position; farther than: The house is a mile past the first stoplight. They walked past the memorial in silence.3. a. Beyond the power, scope, extent, or influence of: The problem is past the point of resolution.b. Beyond in development or appropriateness: The child is past drinking from a bottle. You're past sucking your thumb, so don't do it.4. Beyond the number or amount of: The child couldn't count past 20. See Usage Note at pass.
[Middle English, from past participle of passen, to pass; see pass.]
past′ness n.pastness (ˈpɑːstnəs) n1. the state of being in the past2. the quality of being reminiscent of the pastThesaurus| Noun | 1. | pastness - the quality of being pasttiming - the time when something happensrecency, recentness - a time immediately before the presentfuturity - the quality of being in or of the futurenowness, presentness - the quality of being the present; "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller |
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Antonyms for pastnessnoun the quality of being pastRelated WordsAntonyms- futurity
- nowness
- presentness
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