belatedness
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You need not equate him exactly with his stand-in to see that in “Leopoldstadt,” by punishing Leo for his belatedness, he is punishing himself for his own.
From New York Times ● Oct. 2, 2022
A central part of literary critic Harold Bloom’s theory of artistic influence is belatedness, the feeling an artist experiences upon realizing that everything he or she hoped to say has already been said.
From Slate ● Mar. 16, 2019
This sense of belatedness is the theme of “The Talos Project,” a somber and captivating video game by the Croatian studio Croteam.
From The New Yorker ● Jun. 9, 2016
Talk about the promise of digitization or the belatedness of print is a smokescreen to obscure a larger abdication: the library exists to maintain a collection, in perpetuity, for everyone.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 7, 2012
Of late years they are growing conscious of their own belatedness, and that touches a tender spot.
From Our Southern Highlanders by Horace Kephart
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