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What does belatedness mean?

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Noun
  1. The state or quality of being belated or of being too late.
  2. Slowness; backwardness.
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I apologise for the belatedness, because these correspondents were ahead of the curve.
I apologize for my belatedness, but you seemed to have managed just fine on your own.
This belatedness causes a jerky motion of the arm and imparts it to the hand.
Of late years they are growing conscious of their own belatedness, and that touches a tender spot.
The ambiguity of the Government of Canada's position and the belatedness with which it sent a clear message demanding Maher Arar's return prolonged his detention.
Some explore the feeling of belatedness — of being left behind by one's changing surroundings and belonging, irretrievably, to the past.

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