UP-TO-DATENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does up-to-dateness mean? 

• UP-TO-DATENESS (noun)
  The noun UP-TO-DATENESS has 1 sense:

1. the property of belonging to the present time

  Familiarity information: UP-TO-DATENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UP-TO-DATENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The property of belonging to the present time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

currency; currentness; up-to-dateness

Context example:

the currency of a slang term

Hypernyms ("up-to-dateness" is a kind of...):

nowness; presentness (the quality of being the present)

Attribute:

current (occurring in or belonging to the present time)

noncurrent (not current or belonging to the present time)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "up-to-dateness"):

contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness (the quality of being current or of the present)

Derivation:

up-to-date (reflecting the latest information or changes)

up-to-date (in accord with the most fashionable ideas or style)