preteriteness

English

Etymology

From preterite +‎ -ness.

Noun

preteriteness (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of preteritness
   • 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

References

• “preteriteness”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.