nownessn.
/ˈnaʊnəs/, U.S. /ˈnaʊnəs/ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > quality of being the present
presentiality1545
presentness1616
nowness1674
nowness1869
present-dayness1907
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge Contents The Doctors objection against the Nowness of eternity answer'd.
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 42 God does as truly abide, after the way of his everlasting nowness, as other things do after the guise of their timesom running on and on, without being himself timesom, like them.
2. The quality of existing or taking place in the present time; immediacy.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [noun] > quality of being the present
presentiality1545
presentness1616
nowness1674
nowness1869
present-dayness1907
1869 N. Porter Human Intellect (ed. 2) 550 Hence the hereness and thereness, the nowness and thenness, the beforeness and the afterness may be common to many individuals.
1891 E. B. Bax Outlooks from New Standpoint iii. 199 All nowness is the form of I-ness.
1928 A. S. Eddington Nature Physical World iii. 49 From this point of view the ‘nowness’ of an event is like a shadow cast by it into space.
1962 Punch 1 Aug. 153/2 Once the viewer has tasted..This-is-actually-happening, or what we might..describe as Nowness, he's going to waste no time in demanding it.
1991 J. Mander In Absence of Sacred ii. v. 91 Reagan also grasped the antihistorical nature of TV reality, its nowness.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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