WordCmp.com

pastness vs recentness

recentness vs pastness

pastness and recentness both are nouns.

Word NounAdjectiveVerbAdverb
pastness Yes No No No
recentness Yes No No No
As nouns, recentness is a hyponym of pastness; that is, recentness is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than pastness:
  • pastness: the quality of being past
  • recentness: a time immediately before the present
Other hyponyms of pastness include recency, medievality.
pastness (noun) recentness (noun)
the quality of being past a time immediately before the present
the property of having happened or appeared not long ago
Difference between pastness and recentness

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.