nowness
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- noun
- Specialized
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presente
- Because I cannot set them out carefully now, let me just pour them out before you and then choose the one that particularly bears on the just-nowness, the peculiar "modernity" of our time for a brief final word.
The adverbial qualia are the hereness, the nowness, the togetherness.
- The adverbial qualia are the hereness, the nowness, the togetherness.
Examples
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The adverbial qualia are the hereness, the nowness, the togetherness.
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At the website Nowness today, Miranda July tackles the issue of productivity in a deleted scene from her most recent film, The Future.
Blog text (9) -
I don't understand what about the the present, the nowness like you've got now.
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Similarly, the contours of time changed; each moment seemed to hold its maximum "nowness" before brimming into the next.
Academic text (2001) -
So the singer in that ink, Dark dream, Neverness and nowness, she sang Beauty of the world, Broken world, she sang Chimera.
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We can't make much purchase on the 'nowness' of a performance before it is sublimated by the irresistible force of the past tense.
Blog text (6) -
Modernity is just-nowness, up-to-date-ness.
Blog text (1) -
Language, emotions, and relations should be both more oblique and more pointed: historically significant "events" remaining should cause sublimation to the point of total inundation, along with an almost absolute loss of the level of "here and nowness" that constitutes the excitement of allowing desire to uncover itself.
Fiction book (1990) -
In meditation, practitioners focus on the concept of nowness to fully experience the present moment.
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The artist captures the essence of nowness in his paintings, emphasizing the importance of living in the moment.
Synonyms
A feeling of being fully in the moment and aware of what happens
Being up to date with present events and information
Antonyms
How Present
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Nowness is made from the simple word now and the ending -ness, which makes a word mean a 'state' or 'quality', like in happiness or darkness. So nowness means the 'state of being present' or the feeling of the present moment, which is why artists try to capture it.