1) Delay 2) Lack of punctuality 3) Reason for a pass 4) State of those seen last 5) Tardiness 6) Timing 7) Unpunctuality 1) Sluggishness 2) Subsequentness 
• (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.
Late'ness noun The state, condition, or quality, of being late; as, the lateness of his arrival; the lateness of the hour; the lateness of the season. 
[n] - quality of coming late or later in time
noun quality of coming late or later in time