presentness
- noun
- /ˈprɛzəntnəs/
:
presencia
- Feeling a deep sense of presentness, she took a moment to appreciate the beauty of her surroundings.
- presence and presentness
And again, presentness is also a reminder that like things don't need to be as I'm a very intense person.
- And again, presentness is also a reminder that like things don't need to be as I'm a very intense person.
Examples
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Perhaps, too, this impossible time scape of postmodernity itself betrays a deep undertow of anxiety about presentness.
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Having first deeply appreciated presentness, the novel projected it backwards.
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Those events lend the episode the mark of presentness.
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Why gloss over the presentness and reality of death?
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Presentness leads us astray when we consider the past.
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Fried treats theater as the enemy of presentness, stage presence as the thief of true presence.
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Undoubtedly, the quest for presence and presentness dominates postmodern performance.
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In such presentness, there is no need to search for God or for Buddha, for redemption or enlightenment.
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Its doubleness, strong and beautiful, and its presentness—its position between past and future—make it a "Hinge."
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Meditation helps enhance one's sense of presentness by focusing on the here and now.
Synonyms
951
2.1
Being in a particular place or situation
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9.9
A feeling that something is happening at this moment
Being up to date with present events and information
The state of being present in a certain place
Antonyms
How Immediate
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Presentness comes from present (meaning 'now' or 'being here') plus the ending -ness that makes a noun meaning a state or quality, as in presence. So, presentness is the 'quality of being in the present', or simply being 'in the moment'.