as in lateness
the quality or state of being late
the belatedness of the payment resulted in us being charged overdue fees
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Recent Examples of belatedness
For a notorious 2006 exhibition at Maureen Paley in London, Violette took the anticlimax of belatedness as his subject, engineering a spectacle of frustrated anticipation.
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Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Rachel Wetzler, Artforum, 1 Feb. 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for belatedness
lateness
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How must Yves Bissouma, who was left out of the squad for August’s UEFA Super Cup penalty shootout defeat to Paris-Saint Germain due to persistent lateness, feel watching his team-mate avoid facing the consequences?—
Jay Harris,
New York Times,
3 Feb. 2026
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Feldman provides an exceptional guide to a culture that produced castrati only to discard them, and to the haunted sense of too-lateness that left Moreschi outside his own life.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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“Belatedness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/belatedness. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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