up-to-dateness

English

Etymology

up-to-date +‎ -ness

Noun

up-to-dateness (usually uncountable, plural up-to-datenesses)

1. The quality or degree of being up to date.
   • 1923, "Mirrors of Moscow," Time, 07 April, 1923, [1]:

     Outside of politics, the telephone and the cable, all up-to-dateness offends him.

   • 1949, George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four, Part One, Chapter 5, w:Nineteen Eighty-Four:

     […] he venerated Big Brother, he rejoiced over victories, he hated heretics, not merely with sincerity but with a sort of restless zeal, an up-to-dateness of information, which the ordinary Party member did not approach.

   • 2003, Terry Eagleton, Figures of Dissent: Critical Essays on Fish, Spivak, Žižek and Others‎^[2], London: Verso, page 144:

     Of all historical periods, modernity is the only one to designate itself, vacuously, in terms of its up-to-dateness.

Translations

quality or degree

• Finnish: ajanmukaisuus (fi), ajantasaisuus (fi)
• German: Aktualität (de) f
• Polish: aktualność (pl) f