Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1.
quality of coming early or earlier in time;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Earliness \Ear"li*ness\, n.
The state of being early or forward; promptness.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
earliness
n 1: quality of coming early or earlier in time [ant:
lateness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
28 Moby Thesaurus words for "earliness":
anachronism, antecedence, antecedency, antedate, antedating,
anteriority, anticipation, earlier state, historical error,
lateness, metachronism, misdate, misdating, mistiming,
parachronism, past time, postdating, precedence, precedency,
precession, predating, preexistence, priority, prochronism,
prolepsis, status quo ante, tardiness, unpunctuality