Lateness is valid Scrabble Word

Is lateness a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is lateness valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

8 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for LATENESS in dictionary:

NOUN:

the quality of being late
the fact or quality of happening or arriving after the expected or usual time; unpunctuality
the fact of being far on in the day or night
The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season.
quality of coming late or later in time

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

the state of being late

Words related to LATENESS

late4 latenesses10

Words that contain LATENESS

latenesses10 oblateness12 prolateness13 desolateness13 oblatenesses14 inviolateness16 prolatenesses15 articulateness16 desolatenesses15 immaculateness20 inviolatenesses18 articulatenesse17 inarticulateness18 articulatenesses18 disconsolateness19 disconsolatenesses21 inarticulatenesses20

How to use LATENESS in a sentence

When we had gazed our fill, we set hastily to work to collect plants, as many as the lateness of the hour and the scalding heat would allow.
Other things had been bought in town that day, and Appleman had no difficulty in giving reasons for the lateness of his home-coming.
On account of the lateness of the season, and the limited time at my command, this was preferable to taking horses and riding across the country from Seville to Cordova.
On reaching Detroit, the lateness of the season admonished me to lose no time in making my way over the stormy Erie to Buffalo, whence I pursued my journey to New York.
Now Nell had still the piece of gold, and considering the lateness of the hour, and into what a state of consternation they would throw Mrs.
And then she perceived that, spite of the lateness of the hour, her customary retinue of voluntary spies had failed her.
He replaced his hat hastily, and an apologetic remark concerning the lateness of his visit was never finished.
It was not strange, perhaps, considering the lateness of the hour, that the sleep which he had long sought in vain now came to him.
He had accounted for his lateness by a story quite inconsistent with these facts.
Everything showed the season so far advanced, and served to remind us of the lateness of our start.

CHAPTER XXV AN INCONGRUOUS BIT OF HOUSEBOATING By this time, we were becoming anxious about the lateness of the season.
When it was concluded the judge took his leave abruptly, pleading the lateness of the hour and his duties for the morrow.
In spite of the lateness of the hour my mother received them, and in spite of their wearied and worn faces administered a gentle rebuke for the anxiety that Mrs.
It was no uncommon thing for him to be away for days and nights on end when he was hot upon a scent, so that his lateness caused me no surprise.
The lateness of the autumn compelled him to provide a shelter as quickly as possible, and he built what is known on the frontier as a half-faced camp, about fourteen feet square.
The lateness of the season obliges me to decline my journey into the south of France.
There was nothing more to be done that night, for a glance at my watch showed me the lateness of the hour.
On her remarking on the lateness of the hour, he made answer that the old man was out of sorts.
The lateness of the session at the time when this was achieved prevented the further progress of the bill.
Our bed was soft and downy, but in spite of the lateness of the hour and having been in our saddles at dawn, we tossed about, unable to sleep.
Knaggs responded, and did pretty well considering the lateness of the hour, but insisted that he ought to have a better surface than the carpet.
For days and weeks the Indians had expected it and wondered at its lateness.
Lateness, then, in the average age of reproduction appears to be the principle underlying longevity.
Further, Adela resented his frequent lateness for meals.
On account of lateness he had not been able to come to the house of lovely Sue to escort her with him to the home of Madam Taylor.
She wondered at the lateness of his call, but had no objection to see him.
So negotiations, emphasized by piecemeal destruction, went on till sickness and the lateness of the season put the English in a sorry fix.
On approaching Fort Worth, still traveling slowly on account of the lateness of the spring, I decided to pay a flying visit to Palo Pinto County.
There was no appearance of activity on board, and the lateness of the hour made it improbable that Arnold and Robinson would return before morning.
But in this proposal he was opposed by the majority, on account of the lateness of the season, the scarcity of provisions, and the hardships we had already undergone.
They were all becoming rather anxious at the lateness of the season, and were thinking of moving away.
For the first time I realised how the lateness of the hour might affect me.
Although the lateness of the night compelled me, yet I felt an unwillingness to tear myself from the scene of such surpassing interest.

Similar words containing LATENES without suffix s

latenesses10 oblateness12 prolateness13 desolateness13 oblatenesses14 inviolateness16 prolatenesses15 articulateness16 desolatenesses15 immaculateness20 inviolatenesses18 inarticulatenes17 disconsolatenes18 articulatenesse17 inarticulateness18 articulatenesses18 disconsolateness19 disconsolatenesses21 inarticulatenesses20

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