yesterdayness

Etymology

From yesterday + -ness.

yesterdayness means the property of being, or seeming to be, in the past. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 100 out of 100.

Why “yesterdayness” is a great word

YESTERDAYNESS — [Noun] The property of being, or seeming to be, in the past. From yesterday (from Old English “geostran dæg”, meaning "the day just past") + -ness (a suffix forming nouns indicating a state or quality). First attested in 1836. Unlike "antiquity," which venerates a monumental, distant past, or "obsolescence," which clinically declares a thing superseded, yesterdayness is the soft, permeable quality of the just-gone. It is the still-warm indentation on a pillow, the dated design of a phone that was recently modern, or the exact hue of daylight in a five-year-old photograph—a past so close it lingers as an almost tangible atmosphere, not yet calcified into history.

noun

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.”