Crossword-Solution: PASTNESS
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
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eruption
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Sentences with PASTNESS (5)
There may be a specific feeling which could be called the feeling of "pastness," especially where immediate memory is concerned.
When a remembered event has a remembered context, this may occur in two ways, either (a) by successive images in the same order as their prototypes, or (b) by remembering a whole process simultaneously, in the same way in which a present process may be apprehended, through akoluthic sensations which, by fading, acquire the mark of just-pastness in an increasing degree as they fade, and are thus placed in a series while all sensibly present.
But when I have seen a flash of lightning and am waiting for the thunder, I have a belief-feeling analogous to memory, except that it refers to the future: I have an image of thunder, combined with a feeling which may be expressed in the words: "this will happen." So, in memory, the pastness lies, not in the content of what is believed, but in the nature of the belief-feeling.
Drop the connotation of "something past," "something present," "something future." You have pastness, presentness, and futureness.
When what it connotes is left out, and what it notes is retained, we have the idea which is expressed by pastness.
Quotes with PASTNESS (2)
Is not the pastness of the past the more profound, the more legendary, the more immediately it falls before the present ?
Much of history is fragmentary and essentially anachronistic — condemning the past for not being more like the present. It has no real interest in the pastness of the past.