Nowness

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The property of happening now, or relating to the present time. countable, uncountable

    "With events cascading so quickly that last year often feels like another era, Armstrong wanted to create what he called, when I spoke to him last week, “a feeling of nowness.”"

  2. 2
    the quality of being the present wordnet

Synonyms

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greennessimmaturitylatenessmint conditionnewnessnonce

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"With events cascading so quickly that last year often feels like another era, Armstrong wanted to create what he called, when I spoke to him last week, “a feeling of nowness.”"

Etymology

From now + -ness.

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