Definition of Previousness

1. n. The quality or state of being previous; priority or antecedence in time.

Definition of Previousness

1. Noun. The quality of being previous. ¹

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Definition of Previousness

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Previousness

previdential
preview
previewable
previewed
previewer
previewers
previewing
previews
preving
previous
previous(a)
previous(p)
previous question
previously
previously disadvantaged
previousness
previousnesses
previs
previse
prevised
previses
prevising
prevision
previsional
previsionary
previsioned
previsioning
previsions
previsit
previsited

Literary usage of Previousness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Every where by Will Carleton (1907)
"SLEUTHS' "Previousness." * WO women, mother and daughter, were journeying toward New York, in a sleeping-car. As the train neared Rochester, ..."

2. Transactions of the Obstetrical Society of London: Vol. I-XLIX, for the Year by Obstetrical Society of London (1880)
"This is the cause of prolapse, I believe, in the rare cases of previousness of a detached and then prolapsed placenta; and it has certainly been so in most ..."

3. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1891)
"Secondary memory has an additional consciousness of previousness added to knowledge. There is no revival of an image, but there is a " second event, ..."

4. Poems by Edward Sandford Martin (1914)
"... With mad, spasmodic previousness, he pops. Poor, dizzy fool; instead of winning more He only loses what he had before. ..."

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