preteriteness

== English == === Alternative forms === preteritness === Etymology === From preterite +‎ -ness. === Noun === preteriteness (uncountable) The quality or state of being past. 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.