retroactiveness

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English

Etymology

From retroactive +‎ -ness.

Noun

retroactiveness (uncountable)

  1. The state or condition of being retroactive.
    • 1908, Hubert Bruce Fuller, “Congressional Salary Legislation”, in The North American Review, volume 188, number 635, page 551:
      Then, too, it was divorced from the disagreeable features of retroactiveness and partisanship which had inspired the particularly bitter condemnation of the Salary Acts of 1816 and 1873.
    • 1960, “Summaries of Papers Delivered at the 119th Annual Meeting”, in Journal of the American Statistical Association, volume 55, number 290, page 371:
      The author reviews the history of the Wholesale Price Index, the Consumer Price Index, and Parity Index, pointing out the wide variation that in the past has characterized frequency of revision (intervals of revision), retroactiveness of revisions . . . .
    • 2004, Bruce A. Blonigen, Jee-Hyeong Park, “Dynamic Pricing in the Presence of Antidumping Policy: Theory and Evidence”, in The American Economic Review, volume 94, number 1, page 138n:
      However, it can be shown that a model with this retroactive feature will generate qualitatively identical results with respect to the dynamic pricing behavior as a model without retroactiveness.

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