| NOUN | attribute | presentness, nowness | the quality of being the present |
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| Meaning | The quality of being the present. | |
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| Example | "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller | |
| Synonym | nowness | |
| Narrower | currentness, currency, up-to-dateness | The property of belonging to the present time |
| Broader | timing | The time when something happens |
| Opposite | futurity | The quality of being in or of the future |
| pastness | The quality of being past | |
| Adjectives | present | temporal sense |
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