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PRESENTNESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does presentness mean? 

PRESENTNESS (noun)
  The noun PRESENTNESS has 1 sense:

1. the quality of being the presentplay

  Familiarity information: PRESENTNESS used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


PRESENTNESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

The quality of being the present

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

nowness; presentness

Context example:

a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past

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)


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