belated
adjective
coming or being after the customary, useful, or expected time.
belatedness
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a word derived from
belated.
Example Sentences
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But the cost of belatedness is real for her too: Every time we spoke, she was “muerta,” “despilada,” “exhausta,” run ragged by relentless institutional demands.
From New York Times ● Aug. 25, 2022
You can explore it all on this remarkable website, which somehow dissolves feelings of belatedness and nostalgia into a perpetual present that is banal, gorgeous and — always — heavily sign-posted.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 7, 2021
Those assumptions were belied, obviously, by McCarthy’s success, the belatedness of his downfall, and the abuses of power that greater and lesser figures have managed to get away with since.
From Slate ● May 3, 2018
This sense of belatedness is the theme of “The Talos Project,” a somber and captivating video game by the Croatian studio Croteam.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2016
"I am something suspicious of myself, and do take notice of a certain belatedness in me."
From Milton by Mark Pattison
