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PRESENTNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being the present
Example:
a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past
Synonyms:
nowness; presentness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("presentness" is a kind of...):
timing (the time when something happens)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "presentness"):
currency; currentness; up-to-dateness (the property of belonging to the present time)
Antonym:
futurity (the quality of being in or of the future)
pastness (the quality of being past)
Derivation:
present (temporal sense; intermediate between past and future; now existing or happening or in consideration)
