lateness
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- n quality of coming late or later in time
- When colleges report kids explaining their lateness to class with the excuse that their mother forgot their wake-up call, when a professor finds undergraduates communicating with .
- It wasn't the lateness of his entry fully six months after most of his rivals that killed his campaign.
- The Met's Volpe finally lost patience with her rehearsal shenanigans -- which included lateness and even absence, as well as withering criticism of her fellow performers and flaky .