(n.) The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.

afterlife anachronism antedating anticipation brand-newness callowness dewiness earliness following freshness future time gloss of novelty greenness hangover historical error immaturity impropriety inappropriateness inauspiciousness inconvenience inexpedience infelicity inopportuneness inopportunity intactness intempestivity interruption intrusion irrelevance maidenhood metachronism mint condition misdate misdating mistiming newbornness newfangledness newfangleness newness next life novelness novelty nowness originality parachronism postdate postdating posteriority prematurity presentness pristineness prochronism prolepsis provenience rawness recency recentness remainder sequence strangeness subsequence succession supervenience supervention tardiness uncommonness unfamiliarity unfavorableness unfitness unfittingness unfortunateness unpropitiousness unpunctuality unripeness unseasonableness unsuitability untimeliness unusualness virginity wrongness