lateness

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: late=ness

CIDE DICTIONARY

lateness, n. 

 The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

lateness

afterlife, anachronism, antedating, anticipation, brand-newness, callowness, dewiness, earliness, following, freshness, future time, gloss of novelty, greenness, hangover, historical error, immaturity, impropriety, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness, inconvenience, inexpedience, infelicity, inopportuneness, inopportunity, intactness, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion, irrelevance, maidenhood, metachronism, mint condition, misdate, misdating, mistiming, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness, newness, next life, novelness, novelty, nowness, originality, parachronism, postdate, postdating, posteriority, prematurity, presentness, pristineness, prochronism, prolepsis, provenience, rawness, recency, recentness, remainder, sequence, strangeness, subsequence, succession, supervenience, supervention, tardiness, uncommonness, unfamiliarity, unfavorableness, unfitness, unfittingness, unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unpunctuality, unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness, unusualness, virginity, wrongness

ROGET THESAURUS

lateness

Lateness

N lateness, tardiness, delay, delation, cunctation, procrastination, deferring, deferral, postponement, adjournment, prorogation, retardation, respite, pause, reprieve, stay of execution, protraction, prolongation, Fabian policy, medecine expectante, chancery suit, federal case, leeway, high time, moratorium, holdover, late, tardy, slow, behindhand, serotine, belated, postliminious, posthumous, backward, unpunctual, untimely, delayed, postponed, dilatory, delayed, in abeyance, late, lateward, backward, late in the day, at sunset, at the eleventh hour, at length, at last, ultimately, after time, behind time, after the deadline, too late, too late for, slowly, leisurely, deliberately, at one's leisure, ex post facto, sine die, nonum prematur in annum, against the sunbeams serotine and lucent, ie meglio tardi che mai, deliberando saepe perit occasio.