lateness

lateness
    n 1: quality of coming late or later in time [ant: {earliness}]
    

Lateness \Late"ness\, n.
   The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the
   lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the
   lateness of the season.
   [1913 Webster]
    

80 Moby Thesaurus words for "lateness":
      afterlife, anachronism, antedating, anticipation, brand-newness,
      callowness, dewiness, earliness, following, freshness, future time,
      gloss of novelty, greenness, hangover, historical error,
      immaturity, impropriety, inappropriateness, inauspiciousness,
      inconvenience, inexpedience, infelicity, inopportuneness,
      inopportunity, intactness, intempestivity, interruption, intrusion,
      irrelevance, maidenhood, metachronism, mint condition, misdate,
      misdating, mistiming, newbornness, newfangledness, newfangleness,
      newness, next life, novelness, novelty, nowness, originality,
      parachronism, postdate, postdating, posteriority, prematurity,
      presentness, pristineness, prochronism, prolepsis, provenience,
      rawness, recency, recentness, remainder, sequence, strangeness,
      subsequence, succession, supervenience, supervention, tardiness,
      uncommonness, unfamiliarity, unfavorableness, unfitness,
      unfittingness, unfortunateness, unpropitiousness, unpunctuality,
      unripeness, unseasonableness, unsuitability, untimeliness,
      unusualness, virginity, wrongness