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Pronunciation / Transliteration: ateetata
"पुराने खंडहरों में एक गहरी अतीतता झलकती है।"
Comprehensive Definitions & Senses
2 senses- 1
The quality or state of belonging to the past; the distinct temporal character of having occurred or existed in a previous time.
"The old photograph had a palpable sense of pastness that immediately evoked a forgotten era." - 2
The historical distance or separation of an event from the present moment.
"Historians often grapple with the pastness of medieval mindsets, which are entirely alien to modern sensibilities."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology
Derived from the noun/adjective 'past' (from Middle English 'past', past participle of 'passen', to pass) combined with the Germanic nominal suffix '-ness' denoting a state or quality. The formation emerged in modern philosophical and literary discourse to abstract the distinct temporal quality of belonging to times gone by.
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10 Global Lexicons: How "Pastness" is said worldwide
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caractère révolu
Transliteration: ka.ʁaktɛʁ ʁe.vɔ.ly
"Le vieux manuscrit dégageait un sentiment de passéité."
Vergangenheitlichkeit
Transliteration: fɛɐ̯ˈɡanŋənhaɪt͡slɪçkaɪt
"Die Philosophie untersucht die ontologische Bedeutung von Vergangenheitlichkeit."
passatezza
Transliteration: pas.saˈtet.tsa
"La passatezza di quegli eventi li rende ormai distanti."
pasado
Transliteration: paˈsa.ðo
"La profunda pastness del monumento evocaba siglos de historia."
passado
Transliteration: paˈsa.du
"O artefato carregava uma forte aura de passado."
अतीतता
Transliteration: ateetata
"पुराने खंडहरों में एक गहरी अतीतता झलकती है।"
过去性
Transliteration: guòqù xìng
"这件旧物带有一种强烈的过去性。"
과거성
Transliteration: gwageo-seong
"그 유물은 강한 과거성을 띠고 있었다."
過去性
Transliteration: kako-sei
"その古い建造物には独特の過去性が漂っていた。"
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