1520s, "condition of being in advance," from forward + -ness. Meaning "presumptuousness" is from c. 1600. Old English foreweardness meant "a beginning."
the arts are in no kind of forwardness in this matter
the forwardness of the harvest this year
he tried to explain his forwardness in battle
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