Retroactiveness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The state or condition of being retroactive. uncountable

    "Then, too, it was divorced from the disagreeable features of retroactiveness and partisanship which had inspired the particularly bitter condemnation of the Salary Acts of 1816 and 1873."

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"Then, too, it was divorced from the disagreeable features of retroactiveness and partisanship which had inspired the particularly bitter condemnation of the Salary Acts of 1816 and 1873."

Etymology

From retroactive + -ness.

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