present
adjective
being, existing, or occurring at this time or now; current.
presentness
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a word derived from
present.
Example Sentences
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Timely 911 response is vital, but our presentness and proximity to each other are equally important.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
We are in a state of uneasy presentness, “like Zen moments without the mindfulness,” she notes in the preface to her book “Trapped in the Present Tense: Meditations on American Memory.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 4, 2022
And, Berger’s work suggests, they aren’t forms of forgetfulness but of presentness, memory, recovery, because they place you in relation to, in community with, the dead.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 6, 2017
Both Bel's and Sehgal's work concern presence and presentness, what it means to be a spectator.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 11, 2012
Do you either listen and apply your hearts to a presentness in hearing?
From The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning by Hugh Binning
