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Meaning of "pastness" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF PASTNESS

pastness  [ˈpɑːstnəs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF PASTNESS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Pastness is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES PASTNESS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

pastness

Past

Spacetime, Motion ♦ Space Event ♦ Continuum Time travel ♦ v t e The past is a term used to indicate the totality of events which occurred before a given point in time. The past is contrasted with and defined by the present and the future. The concept of the past is derived from the linear fashion in which human observers experience time, and is accessed through memory and recollection. In addition, human beings have recorded the past since the advent of written language. The past is the object of such fields as history, archaeology, archaeoastronomy, chronology, geology, historical geology, historical linguistics, law, ontology, paleontology, paleobotany, paleoethnobotany, palaeogeography, paleoclimatology, and cosmology.

Definition of pastness in the English dictionary

The definition of pastness in the dictionary is the state of being in the past. Other definition of pastness is the quality of being reminiscent of the past.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH PASTNESS


barefacedness
ˈbɛəfeɪstnəs
colorfastness
ˈkʌləˌfɑːstnəs
curstness
ˈkɜːstnəs
firstness
ˈfɜːstnəs
fixedness
ˈfɪkstnəs
forcedness
ˈfɔːstnəs
gastness
ˈɡɑːstnəs
ghastness
ˈɡɑːstnəs
lightfastness
ˈlaɪtˌfɑːstnəs
lostness
ˈlɒstnəs
manifestness
ˈmænɪˌfɛstnəs
perplexedness
pəˈplɛkstnəs
shamefastness
ˈʃeɪmˌfɑːstnəs
soothfastness
ˈsuːθˌfɑːstnəs
stedfastness
ˈstedfɑːstnəs
unbiasedness
ʌnˈbaɪəstnəs
unjustness
ʌnˈdʒʌstnəs
unsteadfastness
ʌnˈstɛdˌfɑːstnəs
vexedness
ˈvɛkstnəs
wasteness
ˈweɪstnəs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE PASTNESS

pastille
pastily
pastime
pastina
pastiness
pasting
pastis
pastitsio
pastitso
pastless
Pasto
pastor
pastoral
pastoral care
pastoral staff
pastorale
pastoralism
pastoralist
pastorally
pastoralness

WORDS THAT END LIKE PASTNESS

alertness
brightness
business
correctness
expert witness
eyewitness
fitness
greatness
hotness
lightness
physical fitness
political correctness
promptness
robustness
shortness
softness
sweetness
tartness
tightness
wetness
witness

Synonyms and antonyms of pastness in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «pastness» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF PASTNESS

Find out the translation of pastness to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of pastness from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «pastness» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

过去性
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

pastness
570 millions of speakers

English

pastness
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

pastness
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

pastness
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

pastness
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

pastness
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

pastness
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

passéité
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Kesempurnaan
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Vergangensein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

過去性
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

pastness
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Pastane
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

pastness
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

pastness
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

पेस्टनेस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

pastness
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

contenuto di passato
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

pastness
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

pastness
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

trecutitatea
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

pastness
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

pastness
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

pastness
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

pastness
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of pastness

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «PASTNESS»

The term «pastness» is used very little and occupies the 164.835 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «PASTNESS» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «pastness» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «pastness» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about pastness

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «PASTNESS»

Discover the use of pastness in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to pastness and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Text and Act : Essays on Music and Performance: Essays on ...
4. The. Pastness. of. the. Present. and. the. Presence. of. the. Past. Do we really want to talk about "authenticity" any more? I had hoped a consensus was forming that to use the word in connection with the performance of music— and ...
Berkeley Richard Taruskin Professor of Music University of California, 1995
2
Language and Time
But is presentness also a metaphysical subject of all pastness- and-futurity- involving states of affairs? It is such a subject if all true past and future tensed A- sentence-tokens ascribe a complex property— present pastness or present futurity ...
Quentin Smith, 2002
3
Race, Nation, Class: Ambiguous Identities
Or conversely we may use them to explain why the present structures should indeed be superseded in the name of deeper and more ancient, ergo more legitimate, social realities. The temporal dimension of pastness is central to and inherent ...
Etienne Balibar, Immanuel Maurice Wallerstein, 1991
4
Coherence and Grounding in Discourse: Outcome of a ...
Results for the pastness feature are summarized in Graphs 1 and 2, which give the percentage of students who rated each particular clause past. In Graph 1, the changed clauses, that is, the clauses where RU in the original transcript were ...
Russell S. Tomlin, 1987
5
Under the Shadow of Nationalism: Politics and Poetics of ...
First, however, I will focus on the termjihun-shi, "one's own pastness."5 I came up with this translation while reading Elizabeth Tonkin's Narrating Our Pasts: The Social Construction of Oral History. In it, she argues: "When we consider that ...
Mariko Tamanoi, 1998
6
The Visual Turn: Classical Film Theory and Art History
Richard Allen that a photograph always carries with it a necessary pastness: "the photograph is never experienced as an illusion, is in no way a presence; ... its reality [is] that of the having-been-there."9 It is indeed true that a photograph ...
Angela Dalle Vacche, 2003
7
Knowing and Being: A Postmodern Reversal
This gives us its departure into the past insofar as each retention (or framing) carries with it a sense of the not-newness or pastness of the retained. Synthesized, such elements give the sense of ongoing departure or increasing pastness.
James R. Mensch, 2004
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Perception, Action, and Consciousness: Sensorimotor Dynamics ...
Pastness is amodal: it is not a visual idea, nor does it belong to any other sensory modality. In fact, a remembered image is ideally the same as that which was sensed when the remembered incident actually occurred. This implies that it can't  ...
Nivedita Gangopadhyay, Michael Madary, Finn Spicer, 2010
9
The Cambridge Companion to Hegel and Nineteenth-Century ...
Hegel's double appealin the preceding passagestoan art which is put underthe heading of “romantic” artsbutwhich is for him also deeply associated with the classical ideal suggests some questions about art's pastness that will be taken up in ...
Frederick C. Beiser, 2008
10
Intersubjectivity and Transcendental Idealism
Temporally speaking, the content's appearance is also the appearance of the pastness through which it is given. This follows since we cannot retain this content without also retaining the pastness which is presented by each of the retentions of ...
James R. Mensch, 1988

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «PASTNESS»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term pastness is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Review: Either/Or, at University Settlement, Is Inspired by Boredom …
In Mr. Coleman's “Metonymies of Pastness” for solo piano the music alternated between brooding darkness, chirpy clarity and an iridescent ... «New York Times, Jun 15»
2
"A Battle of Ideas"
... critic Peter Schjeldahl pegged the 2015 survey's theme as “present pastness” while relating its message that “substantial newness in painting ... «San Antonio Current, May 15»
3
Alissa Quart's 'Monetized': perfect pitch for the present
... use of "man" includes both males and females, a modulation that sets up the intimation that "this retro plane passes/ into unfinished pastness. «Philly.com, May 15»
4
Honi Does Sydney Writer's Festival – Writers on Writers: Malouf and …
For the Romans there is a pastness they have to respond to, they adapted and transposed what came before them, made it art”. ______. «Honi Soit, May 15»
5
Two shows look at photography's early days
Their startling, sterling pastness reminds us of just how unprecedented photography was — and the popularity of daguerreotypes, and their ... «Boston Globe, May 15»
6
How Alice's look has reflected 150 years of fashion
The Victorian features of the outfits give a comforting sense of “pastness” that is not tied to a specific period or national narrative. «Financial Times, Apr 15»
7
Modernising classic plays is a cheap and patronising trick
What directors need to accept and embrace is pastness – the fact that while a drama must always live in the theatrical present of the ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Mar 15»
8
For filmmaker Alex de la Iglesia, life is certainly not beautiful
Despite returning to themes of politics and pastness (2013's horror-heist-comedy Witching and Bitching revisits the 17th-century Basque witch ... «The Globe and Mail, Feb 15»
9
Rome Journal: The Fall of Rome
London, Athens, Paris all have their precincts of pastness. In Peking you visit the Forbidden City, in St. Petersberg, the Hermitage. You read ... «Huffington Post, Jan 15»
10
Take Your Time
He hovers at the shoulders of the two most impressive painters who befit Hoptman's theme of present pastness, the German Charline von Heyl, ... «The New Yorker, Dec 14»

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