HISTORICALNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does historicalness mean? 

• HISTORICALNESS (noun)
  The noun HISTORICALNESS has 2 senses:

1. the state of having in fact existed in the past

2. significance owing to its history

  Familiarity information: HISTORICALNESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HISTORICALNESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The state of having in fact existed in the past

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Hypernyms ("historicalness" is a kind of...):

reality (the state of the world as it really is rather than as you might want it to be)

Derivation:

historical (having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Significance owing to its history

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("historicalness" is a kind of...):

significance (the quality of being significant)

Derivation:

historical (belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past)

historical (used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time)

historical (of or relating to the study of history)