Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

backward-lookingness

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: back-ward-look-ing-ness
IPA

36

Scrabble Score

19

Letters

5

Syllables

14

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

the quality or state of being backward-looking

Uncountable

Example Sentences

"In a sense, forward-looking monetary policy is acting, in a second-best fashion, to counter a backward-looking externality elsewhere in the economy. It is interesting to explore this notion further by considering the trade-off between the degree of backward-lookingness on the part of the private sector in the course of their wage bargaining and the degree of forward-lookingness on the part of the central bank in the course of its interest rate setting."

Etymology

From backward-looking + -ness.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: backward-looking

Usage

Uncountable

Questions

What does backward-lookingness mean?: the quality or state of being backward-looking
Where does backward-lookingness come from?: From backward-looking + -ness.

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