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NOWNESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does nowness mean?
• NOWNESS (noun)
The noun NOWNESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being the present
Familiarity information: NOWNESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being the present
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
nowness; presentness
Context example:
a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past
Hypernyms ("nowness" is a kind of...):
timing (the time when something happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "nowness"):
currency; currentness; up-to-dateness (the property of belonging to the present time)
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