Meanings
nounpreteriteness (uncountable)
alternative preteritness
- uncountableThe 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
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preteriteness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preteriteness
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“preteriteness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/preteriteness. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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