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nowness

nowness noun: the property of happening now, or relating to the present time.

Noun

nowness (countable and uncountable, plural nownesses)

  1. The property of happening now, or relating to the present time.
    • With events cascading so quickly that last year often feels like another era, Armstrong wanted to create what he called, when I spoke to him last week, “a feeling of nowness.”2025 May 26, Michelle Goldberg, quoting Jesse Armstrong, “From the Creator of ‘Succession,’ a Delicious Satire of the Tech Right”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 May...

Forms of nowness

pluralnownesses

Origin of nowness

From now + -ness.

Questions about nowness

What does nowness mean?
Nowness means the property of happening now, or relating to the present time.
What part of speech is nowness?
Nowness is a noun.
What is the plural of nowness?
The plural of nowness is nownesses.

Words near nowness in the dictionary

  1. Nowling
  2. Nowlings
  3. Nowlins
  4. nowmun
  5. nowmuns
  6. nowness
  7. nownesses
  8. Nowosolna
  9. Nowotarski
  10. Nowra
  11. Nowroj

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