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currentness
cur·rent C0815300 (kûr′ənt, kŭr′-)adj.1. a. Belonging to the present time: current events; current leaders.b. Being in progress now: current negotiations.2. Passing from one to another; circulating: current bills and coins.3. Prevalent, especially at the present time: current fashions. See Synonyms at prevailing.4. Running; flowing.n.1. A steady, smooth onward flow or movement: a current of air from a fan; a current of spoken words. See Synonyms at flow.2. The part of a body of liquid or gas that has a continuous onward movement: rowed out into the river's swift current.3. A general tendency, movement, or course. See Synonyms at tendency.4. Symbol IElectricity a. A flow of electric charge.b. The amount of electric charge flowing past a specified circuit point per unit time.
[Middle English curraunt, from Old French corant, present participle of courre, to run, from Latin currere; see kers- in Indo-European roots.]
cur′rent·ly adv.cur′rent·ness n.Thesaurus| Noun | 1. | currentness - the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term"up-to-dateness, currencynowness, presentness - the quality of being the present; "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spillercontemporaneity, contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness, modernism - the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village" |
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Synonyms for currentnessnoun the property of belonging to the present timeSynonymsRelated Words- nowness
- presentness
- contemporaneity
- contemporaneousness
- modernity
- modernness
- modernism
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