up-to-dateness en · NOUN
Etymology
From up-to-date + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable, usually) The quality or degree of being up to date.
Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him.
1923, "Mirrors of Moscow," Time, 07 April, 1923, https://web.archive.org/web/20130817190039/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,715222,00.htmlOf all historical periods, modernity is the only one to designate itself, vacuously, in terms of its up-to-dateness.
2003, Terry Eagleton, Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and Others, London: Verso, page 144:[…] he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.
1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5, w:Nineteen Eighty-Four:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| up-to-datenesses | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Translations (4)
de Aktualität (quality or degree) · fi ajantasaisuus (quality or degree) · pl aktualność (quality or degree) · fi ajanmukaisuus (quality or degree)