preteriteness

Etymology

From preterite + -ness.

preteriteness means the quality or state of being past. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

The quality or state of being past.“c. 1851-1852, James Russell Lowell, Leaves from My Journal in Italy and Elsewhere A valley in the moon could scarce have been lonelier , could scarce have suggested more strongly the feeling of preteriteness and extinction”