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presentness::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | nowness |
| Type of | timing |
| Has types | currency, currentness, up-to-dateness |
| Derivation | present |
a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past.
Examples of presentness
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In The Hours, the presentness of narrative is a choice of tense.
From the guardian.co.uk
Yet this is less a lesson in history than one of presence, and presentness, of being in the now.
From the guardian.co.uk
Both Bel's and Sehgal's work concern presence and presentness, what it means to be a spectator.
From the guardian.co.uk
This kind of presentness, and sense of presence, is, I think, what Hockney would like to capture.
From the guardian.co.uk
One of the odder sensations of reading on the Kindle, though, is a sensation of eternal presentness.
From the nytimes.com
Even the use of speech-marks, curiously absent from the Southey, asserts the presentness of the speakers.
From the guardian.co.uk
The presentness of death is a central element of Judaism.
From the time.com
It's a place of presentness, acceptance, and selflessness.
From the blog.beliefnet.com
Connell, who died in 2009 in his late 60s, was a student of Buddhism, and his work reflects the presentness of that philosophy.
From the sacbee.com
- The quality of being the present; "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller
