yesterdayness en · NOUN
Etymology
From yesterday + -ness.
Meanings
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(uncountable) The property of being, or seeming to be, in the past.
[…] that what we know and feel under this name pleasure or enjoyment and as present pleasure is then, into the bargain and as soon as possible, determined as past, affected with past, with yesterdayness.
2017, Jacques Derrida, The Beast and the Sovereign, volume II, page 52:Perhaps his splendid ability to employ film gesture in still-photography dusts off that quaint aura of death, that yesterdayness associated with photography.
1999, Flash Art, numbers 207-209, page 101: