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presentness

presentness

1 7.4
A feeling of being fully in the moment and aware of what happens
  • 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.

Examples

  • Perhaps, too, this impossible time scape of postmodernity itself betrays a deep undertow of anxiety about presentness.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Having first deeply appreciated presentness, the novel projected it backwards.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Those events lend the episode the mark of presentness.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Why gloss over the presentness and reality of death?

    Academic text (1999)

  • Presentness leads us astray when we consider the past.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Fried treats theater as the enemy of presentness, stage presence as the thief of true presence.

    Academic text (1993)

  • Undoubtedly, the quest for presence and presentness dominates postmodern performance.

    Academic text (1993)

  • In such presentness, there is no need to search for God or for Buddha, for redemption or enlightenment.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Its doubleness, strong and beautiful, and its presentness—its position between past and future—make it a "Hinge."

    Academic text (2011)

  • Meditation helps enhance one's sense of presentness by focusing on the here and now.

Synonyms

presence
vspresentness
∞ 2.1

Being in a particular place or situation

is about existing or occurring at this moment rather than a place or situation
nowness
vspresentness
  • Specialized
1 9.9

A feeling that something is happening at this moment

is the identical meaning but used as an alternative term
thereness
vspresentness
  • Formal
1 9.9

The state of being present in a certain place

is concerned with being in time now rather than physical location
currentness
vspresentness
1 6.5

Being up to date with present events and information

is about existing or occurring at this exact moment rather than general time

Antonyms

absence
312 2.1

A lack of someone or something that should be there

futurity
1 9.5

The time that comes after now

pastness
1 9.9

The state of belonging to an earlier time

How Immediate

immediacy
15 5.8
presentness
1 7.4
presence
∞ 2.1
remoteness
1 6.3
absence
312 2.1

Surface Forms

presentness singular
presentnesses plural

Morphology

presentness = present (transparent) = present + ness

A regular nominalization of the adjective 'present' with '-ness', indicating the state of being present; meaning is directly derivable.

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'.