up-to-dateness
English
Etymology
up-to-date + -ness
Noun
up-to-dateness (usually uncountable, plural up-to-datenesses)
- The quality or degree of being up to date.
- 1923, "Mirrors of Moscow," Time, 07 April, 1923, [1]
- Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him.
- 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5, [2]
- […] he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.
- 2003, Terry Eagleton, Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and Others, London: Verso, p. 144, [3]
- Of all historical periods, modernity is the only one to designate itself, vacuously, in terms of its up-to-dateness.
- 1923, "Mirrors of Moscow," Time, 07 April, 1923, [1]
Translations
quality or degree
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