currentness

currentness

English

Etymology

From current +‎ -ness.

Noun

currentness (uncountable)

1. The state or quality of being current.
   • 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, chapter 17, in The Essayes, […], book II, printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:

     Other vertues have had little or no currantnesse at all in this age: But valour is become popular by reason of our civill warres […].

2. (obsolete) Easiness of pronunciation; fluency.
   • Camden

     When currentness [combineth] with staidness, how can the language […] sound other than most full of sweetness?

Synonyms

• currency

Translations

quality of being current

Finnish: ajantasaisuus (fi); ajankohtaisuus (fi)