tardiness

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English

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Etymology

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From tardy +‎ -ness.

Noun

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tardiness (countable and uncountable, plural tardinesses)

  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being tardy.
    • 1947 January and February, “Notes and News: Drivers' Reprisals”, in Railway Magazine, page 53:
      Some ten years ago, an evening excursion train from the Walsall area to Manchester, when travelling well over the heavily-graded Walsall-Rugeley line, was brought to a stand at a level crossing at Hednesford by the tardiness of a gatekeeper, who was pottering about in his garden instead of attending to his duties.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being tardy.

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