Dateness

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. The quality or condition of relating to or the state of having a date; the characteristic of specifying a particular time or day; the measure of time relevance in a given context
2. The attribute of being associated with a specific calendar date; the property of indicating temporal placement; the feature of denoting when something occurs or is set to occur
3. The state of possessing a temporal reference point; the aspect of assigning or belonging to a particular day or period; the condition of time-based identification or categorization

Etymology: It appears to be a transparent formation: the noun "date" (a specified time or day, from Old French "date" and ultimately from Medieval Latin "data," the "given" time, from Latin "datum," the past participle of "dare," to give) combined with the English suffix "-ness," which forms abstract nouns of state or quality from adjectives, as in "darkness" or "kindness." Words built this way are common coinages, but since "date" is also a noun rather than an adjective here, the formation is less regular, and the word has no recorded history I can confirm. Its meaning as given, the quality of having a date or of being time-specific, follows directly from the sense of "date" as a fixed point in time, so no dramatic shift in meaning is involved.

Synonyms: temporality, timeliness, chronology, time-relatedness

Antonyms: timelessness, eternity, permanence, agelessness