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Definition of Nowness
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 Nowness
1. Noun. The property of happening now, or relating to now. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Nowness
1. the state of existing at the present time [n -ES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Nowness
Literary usage of Nowness
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Outlooks from the New Standpoint by Ernest Belfort Bax (1891)
"The actuality of / we may say is identical with nowness. I am and now are at
bottom three words signifying one thing. All nowness is the form of I-ness, ..."
2. Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing by Larry Chang (2006)
"But since all concepts are based on the idea of relativity, it is impossible to
find any words which go beyond that. So nowness is ..."
3. Psychological Review by American Psychological Association (1896)
"Equally so, and this is a point little regarded, does the presentness, the nowness
of certain objects require to be explained. An object may be regarded at ..."
4. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1920)
"If we can master a metaphor, we can say that "nowness" of nature is the reality
of the things of which it is composed. In our thought of reality, ..."
5. The Monist by Hegeler Institute (1892)
"The second is the energy with which it affects other ideas, an energy which is
infinite in the here-and-nowness of immediate sensation, finite and relative ..."
6. A Whimsey Anthology by Carolyn Wells (1906)
"There has fallen a splendid tear From the Is flower at the fence; She is coming,
my Which, my dear, And as she Whistles a song of the Whence, The nowness ..."
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