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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. quality of coming late or later in time; 



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Lateness \Late"ness\, 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.
   [1913 Webster]


WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

lateness
    n 1: quality of coming late or later in time [ant: earliness]