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pastness

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past·ness  (pstns)
n.
1. The quality or condition of being past.
2. The emotion or feeling evoked by memory: "the one wave of recaptured pastness with which many a gifted writer makes his debut" (John Simon).
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Noun1.pastness - the quality of being past
timing - the time when something happens
recency, recentness - a time immediately before the present
futurity - the quality of being in or of the future
nowness, presentness - the quality of being the present; "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller


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We may say, then, that images are regarded by us as more or less accurate copies of past occurrences because they come to us with two sorts of feelings: (1) Those that may be called feelings of familiarity; (2) those that may be collected together as feelings giving a sense of pastness.
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