lost time
Minutes gone forever
Lost time is time that has passed unproductively or cannot be recovered.
Workers may receive lost time wages for injury-related absences.
The phrase appears in expressions about urgency: There's no time to lose, We have lost time to make up for.
Proust's *In Search of Lost Time* uses it to mean time that has slipped from memory.
To make up for lost time is to compensate for a period of inactivity or separation: After years apart, they had lost time to make up for.
Gone by, temporally
- goneNo longer present
- unrecoverableImpossible to regain
- irrevocableCannot be undone
- irretrievableImpossible to regain
fleeting · transience · impermanence · evanescence · squandered · wasted · forfeited · misspent
Recalling past experiences
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
- longingIntense, persistent desire
memories · retrospection · bygone · yesteryear · recollection · flashback · reverie · hiraeth
Glass-fitted wall opening
- prospectPotential client or opportunity
- momentBrief period of time
- occasionNotable event or moment
- openingGap or start
possibility · too late · ship sailed · passed by · hindsight · second chance · make up for · catch up
Guilt for wrongdoing
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
- self-reproachBlaming oneself for wrongdoing
lamentation · anguish · rue · if only · should have · dwelling · rumination · haunted
elapsed
Gone by, temporally
- goneNo longer present
- unrecoverableImpossible to regain
- irrevocableCannot be undone
irretrievable · fleeting · transience · impermanence · evanescence · squandered · wasted · forfeited · misspent · frittered
reminiscence
Recalling past experiences
- yearningIntense prolonged craving
- melancholySubdued, lasting sadness
- wistfulnessTender sadness for absence
longing · memories · retrospection · bygone · yesteryear · recollection · flashback · reverie · hiraeth · golden days
window
Glass-fitted wall opening
opening · possibility · too late · ship sailed · passed by · hindsight · second chance · make up for · catch up · reclaim
remorse
Guilt for wrongdoing
- guiltMoral self-reproach
- contritionRemorseful state over misdeeds
- repentanceRemorseful rejection of past wrongs
self-reproach · lamentation · anguish · rue · if only · should have · dwelling · rumination · haunted · torment
- Alien Abductionabductee, beam of light, close encounter, grey aliens, gray aliens
- temporalityduration, past, present, future, now
- Dissociationdissociation, depersonalization, derealization, multiple personality disorder, alter
- time sayingscarpe diem, seize the day, better late than never, tempus fugit, haste makes waste
- memoryremember, forget, recall, memorize, recollect
- paranormalghosts, paranormal, haunting, poltergeist, apparition