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[ noun ] the quality of being the present

Synonyms

nowness

Examples

: "a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller

Used in print

(William G. Pollard, Physicist and Christian....)

For this does not account_for the integral , elemental power of that which grows with abounding vigor as the play unfolds , nor does it explain the strange numinous sense of presentness which comes over those who watch the play like a spell .

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