nows

Noun

now (usually uncountable, plural nows)

1. (usually) The present time.
   • Now is the right time.
2. (often, usually) The state of not paying attention to the future or the past.
   • She is living in the now.

   Synonyms:

   here and now, as-is, present

3. (countable, usually) A particular instant in time, as perceived at that instant.
   • Forever is composed of Nows— / 'T is not a different time, / Except for infiniteness / And latitude of home.a. 1887 (date written), Emily Dickinson, “Forever is composed of Nows”, in Martha Dickinson Bianchi and Alfred Leete Hampson, editors, Further Poems of Emily Dickinson, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown...

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