Aheadness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of being ahead. uncountable

    "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?"

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"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?"

Etymology

From ahead + -ness.

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