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aheadness

noun

Etymology

From ahead + -ness.

  1. inherited from *káput✻ — “head”
  2. inherited from *haubudą✻ — “head”
  3. inherited from *haubud✻
  4. inherited from hēafod — “head; top; leader; origin”
  5. inherited from efd
  6. prefixed as ahead — “a + head”
  7. suffixed as aheadness — “ahead + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being ahead.

    • The central oddity of the past future stems from this fact, when considered in the light of the principle of sense: how can it make sense for the speaker to commit himself to aheadness as calculated from a past vantage point?

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for aheadness. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA