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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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The reception of British surrealism has more often than not been coloured by a sense of its belatedness.
This belatedness causes a jerky motion of the arm and imparts it to the hand.
Because of the belatedness of capitalist development, the working class was numerically too weak to carry out the democratic and national struggle.
Some explore the feeling of belatedness — of being left behind by one's changing surroundings and belonging, irretrievably, to the past.
Of late years they are growing conscious of their own belatedness, and that touches a tender spot.
For the Review of Reviews, which was oriented toward the monthly periodical, its belatedness was unproblematic.

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