Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being
retroactive .
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is true that non-retroactiveness may let a lot of KMT off the hook.
KMT Wins in Da-an Michael Turton 2009
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I like the retroactiveness-or retro-attractiveness-of this process, and I li ke what it reveals about the mind: that it is cheerfully storing so much all the time, generating infinite cubbies each with its single broken or torn fragment waiting for a match.
PoetryFoundation.org 2009
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It's the retroactiveness of "womanhood", as well as the "instantly really a woman, the same as every other woman" that I'm talking about.
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But, again - she talks about retroactiveness, as if transitioning is what makes one a trans person, as if being trans is something that doesn't really exist until that moment you start taking hormones or living as a member of the proper sex.
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It’s the retroactiveness of “womanhood”, as well as the “instantly really a woman, the same as every other woman” that I’m talking about.
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“It’s the retroactiveness of “womanhood”, as well as the “instantly really a woman, the same as every other woman” that I’m talking about.
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