tardiness

CIDE DICTIONARY

tardiness, n. 

 The quality or state of being tardy.  [1913 Webster]

THESAURUS

tardiness

anachronism, antedating, anticipation, belatedness, earliness, eleventh hour, high time, historical error, last minute, late hour, lateness, metachronism, misdate, misdating, mistiming, parachronism, postdating, prochronism, prolepsis, small hours, unpreparedness, unpunctuality, unreadiness, untimeliness

ROGET THESAURUS

tardiness

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.