| NOUN | attribute | earliness | quality of coming early or earlier in time |
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| Meaning | Quality of coming early or earlier in time. | |
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| Narrower | forwardness | An advanced stage |
| priority, antecedence, antecedency, anteriority, precedence, precedency | preceding in time | |
| Broader | timing | The time when something happens |
| Opposite | lateness | Quality of coming late or later in time |
| Spanish | precocidad | |
| Adjectives | early | at or near the beginning of a period of time or course of events or before the usual or expected time |
| early | of an early stage in the development of a language or literature | |
| early | being or occurring at an early stage / stage of development | |
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