Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or fact of being early; a state of advance or forwardness; a state of being prior to something else, or at the beginning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The state of being early or forward; promptness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The condition of being
early
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun quality of coming early or earlier in time
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Examples
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It’s earliness is evident in that it isn’t as developed and is actually rather boring.
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The earliness is another advantage for plaintiffs, he said.
Chicago IP Litigation Blog R. David Donoghue 2010
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The earliness is another advantage for plaintiffs, he said.
Chicago IP Litigation Blog R. David Donoghue 2010
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The researchers concluded that their samples were: "an important genetic reservoir of variability for useful characters such as earliness, short stem, high number of fertile tillers [see picture overpage], long spikes, dense spikes, high number of seeds per spike 'weight of kernels per spike, and protein content."
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They loose early potency and sort of go down a lineage, so you loose that 'earliness' of the stem cells.
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They loose early potency and sort of go down a lineage, so you loose that 'earliness' of the stem cells.
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They loose early potency and sort of go down a lineage, so you loose that 'earliness' of the stem cells.
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My husband and I actually have the opposite problem: chronic earliness.
Gretchen Rubin: Balanced Life -- Are You Always Late? 7 Tips To Arrive On Time. Gretchen Rubin 2011
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My husband and I actually have the opposite problem: chronic earliness.
Gretchen Rubin: Balanced Life -- Are You Always Late? 7 Tips To Arrive On Time. Gretchen Rubin 2011
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While all the fans at our sports bar seemed cheerful and well-behaved not a single fist-fight broke out just for the hell of it (perhaps owing to the earliness of the hour) it would be misleading to call them anything other than passionate about their team.
World Cup Buzzed 2010
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