| Meaning | The quality of being past. | |
|---|---|---|
| Narrower | recency, recentness | A time immediately before the present |
| Broader | timing | The time when something happens |
| Opposite | futurity | The quality of being in or of the future |
| presentness, nowness | The quality of being the present | |
| Adjectives | past | earlier than the present time |
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