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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

aheadness en · NOUN

Etymology

From ahead + -ness.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of being ahead.
    • The central oddity of the past future stems from this fact, when considered in the light of the principle of sense: how can it make sense for the speaker to commit himself to aheadness as calculated from a past vantage point? 2010, Peter Harder, Functional Semantics, page 359: