nowness

English

Etymology

From now +‎ -ness.

Noun

nowness (countable and uncountable, plural nownesses)

  1. (philosophy) The property of happening now, or relating to the present time.
    • 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[1], →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 May 2025:
      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.”

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