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pastness (iou)



pastness noun. E19.
[from PAST adjective + -NESS.]
The state or condition of being past; the quality or fact of being (connected with) the past.
T. S. Eliot The historical sense involves a perception, not only of the pastness of the past, but of its presence. M. Warnock To be a memory..an image must be accompanied by..a feeling of pastness.