currentness en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree English current Proto-Germanic *-inōną Proto-Indo-European *-dyé- Proto-Germanic *-atjaną Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Germanic *-þuz Proto-Germanic *-assuz Proto-Germanic *-inassuz Proto-West Germanic *-nassī Old English -nes Middle English -nesse English -ness English currentness From current + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The state or quality of being current.
Other vertues have had little or no currantnesse at all in this age: But valour is become popular by reason of our civill warres[…].
1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
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(obsolete, uncountable) Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.
When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language[…]sound other than most full of sweetness?
1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
Synonyms
Translations (4)
pt atualidade (quality of being current) · de Aktualität (quality of being current) · fi ajankohtaisuus (quality of being current) · fi ajantasaisuus (quality of being current)