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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Yet you come upon them with a feeling of belatedness — as if you somehow missed the revelry and are left to survey the morning’s detritus in solitude.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 14, 2023
The future seems brighter than the past, however absurd the belatedness.
From New York Times ● Sep. 23, 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
This belatedness causes a jerky motion of the arm and imparts it to the hand.
From Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered by Josef Hofmann
