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Definition of Presentness
1. Noun. The quality of being the present. "A study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"
Generic synonyms: Timing
Specialized synonyms: Currency, Currentness, Up-to-dateness
Antonyms: Futurity, Pastness
Derivative terms: Present
Definition of Presentness
1. n. The quality or state of being present; presence.
Definition of Presentness
1. Noun. The characteristic of being present, of existing in a place. ¹
2. Noun. The characteristic of being present, of the current time. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Presentness
1. [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Presentness
Literary usage of Presentness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Everyman's World by Joseph Anthony Milburn (1916)
"CHAPTER XV presentness THE saying of Wordsworth, "The child is the father of the
man," is a paradox as true as it is striking. It is one of those flashes of ..."
2. A dictionary of the Spanish and English languages, orig. compiled by Neuman by Henry Neuman, Giuseppe Marc' Antonio Baretti (1862)
"Presencia de ánimo, Serenity, coolness, presence of mind, presentness. Presencial,
a. Presentía!, relating to actual presence. Presencialmente, ad. ..."
3. Personal Idealism: Philosophical Essays by Eight Members of the University by Henry Cecil Sturt (1902)
"He has projected the intuition of presentness into the world of thought as an
... It comes to this—that 'this presentness' is more vital to the existence in ..."
4. Mind and Conduct: Morse Lectures Delivered at the Union Theological Seminary by Henry Rutgers Marshall (1919)
"Past- ness, presentness, and ... or else of the transition between the two which
we call presentness. No mental item can display more than one of these ..."
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