noun ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   The quality of being historical. uncountable
2. 2
   significance owing to its history wordnet
3. 3
   the state of having in fact existed in the past wordnet

Etymology

From historical + -ness.

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