nowhen
nowhen noun: a point from which one has an unrestricted perspective in time.
Noun
nowhen (uncountable)
- A point from which one has an unrestricted perspective in time.
- I want to show that if we want to understand the asymmetry of time then we need to be able to understand, and quarantine, the various ways in which our patterns of thought reflect the peculiarities of our own temporal perspective. We need to acquaint ourselves with what might aptly be called the...1996, Huw Price, Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point, Oxford University Press
Adverb
nowhen (not comparable)
- In or at no (point in) time.
- Again, whatever is not here nor there, now nor then, is capable of being nowhen or nowhere; and so all things which consist of parts, though they may exist always (like Time) or everywhere (like the Universe),[…]1915, Clement Charles Julian Webb, Studies in the History of Natural Theology, page 186
- Do they have continuous existence, nowhere and nowhen, or are they created as needed by categorial reason? On what ground can we postulate them in order to define truth? If they merely copy the world why do we need them and how do we[…]2017 October 3, Albert Peter Pacelli, Being and Intelligibility, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 220
Origin of nowhen
From no + when, by analogy with nowhere. See quotation from 1996.
Questions about nowhen
- What does nowhen mean?
- Nowhen means a point from which one has an unrestricted perspective in time.
- What part of speech is nowhen?
- Nowhen can be a noun or an adverb.
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