PRESENT MOMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does present moment mean? 

• PRESENT MOMENT (noun)
  The noun PRESENT MOMENT has 1 sense:

1. at this time

  Familiarity information: PRESENT MOMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRESENT MOMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

At this time

Classified under:

Nouns denoting time and temporal relations

Synonyms:

here and now; moment; present moment

Context example:

she is studying at the moment

Hypernyms ("present moment" is a kind of...):

nowadays; present (the period of time that is happening now; any continuous stretch of time including the moment of speech)

 Context examples 

In my company at the present moment.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“My love,” he observed, “perhaps you will allow me to remark that it is barely possible that I DO feel my position at the present moment.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

And yet she may at the present moment be in danger of her life.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Jim’s fit to fight for his life at the present moment,” said Harrison.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the present moment, for example, I should be writing a treatise instead of conversing with you.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then the hope died down as he added, shaking his head, "We've had him two weeks now, and if anything he's wilder than ever at the present moment."

(White Fang, by Jack London)

These reflections were long indulged undisturbed by any address from her companion, who sat as deep in thought as herself; and the appearance of the carriage was the first thing to startle and recall them to the present moment.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

To be finding herself, perhaps within three days, transported to Mansfield, was an image of the greatest felicity, but it would have been a material drawback to be owing such felicity to persons in whose feelings and conduct, at the present moment, she saw so much to condemn: the sister's feelings, the brother's conduct, her cold-hearted ambition, his thoughtless vanity.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I may add that his whole debts at the present moment, as far as we have been able to ascertain, amount to £ 88 10s., while he has £ 220 standing to his credit in the Capital and Counties Bank.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I can readily believe, answered he gravely, that reports may vary greatly with respect to me; and I could wish, Miss Bennet, that you were not to sketch my character at the present moment, as there is reason to fear that the performance would reflect no credit on either.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)