Meanings
plural up-to-datenesses
- uncountableusuallyThe quality or degree of being up to date.
Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him.
1923, "Mirrors of Moscow," Time, 07 April, 1923, https://web.archive.org/web/20130817190039/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,715222,00.html2 more examples
[…] he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5, w:Nineteen Eighty-FourOf all historical periods, modernity is the only one to designate itself, vacuously, in terms of its up-to-dateness.
2003, Terry Eagleton, Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and Others, London: Verso, page 144
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe property of belonging to the present time
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
Translations
Finnish ajanmukaisuus, ajantasaisuus
- ajanmukaisuusquality or degree
- ajantasaisuusquality or degree
German Aktualität
- Aktualitätquality or degree
Polish aktualność
- aktualnośćquality or degree
Cite this entry
up-to-dateness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/up-to-dateness
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