currentness

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *ḱers-

Proto-Indo-European *-éti

Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥séti

Proto-Italic *korzō

Latin currere

Old French corre

Old French curantbor.

Middle English curraunt

English current

Proto-Germanic *-in-

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂ti

Proto-Germanic *-ōną

Proto-Germanic *-inōną

Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-

Proto-Germanic *-atjaną

Proto-Indo-European *-tus

Proto-Germanic *-þuz

Proto-Germanic *-assuz

Proto-Germanic *-inassuz

Proto-West Germanic *-nassī

Old English -nes

Middle English -nesse

English -ness

English currentness

From current + -ness.

currentness (uncountable)

The state or quality of being current.
- 1603, Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in John Florio, transl., The Essayes […], book II, London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
  Other vertues have had little or no currantnesse at all in this age: But valour is become popular by reason of our civill warres […].
(obsolete) Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.
- 1605, M. N. [pseudonym; William Camden], Remaines of a Greater Worke, Concerning Britaine, […], London: […] G[eorge] E[ld] for Simon Waterson, →OCLC:
  When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language […] sound other than most full of sweetness?

quality of being current