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Presentness

noun
1.
The quality of being the present.  Synonym: nowness.






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"Presentness" Quotes from Famous Books



... generalities, and these too formed all the superstructure. That revelry and that debauchery, which are so often fatal to the powers of intellect, would probably have been serviceable to him; they would have given him a closer communion with realities, they would have induced a greater presentness to present objects. But Mr. Pitt's conduct was correct, unimpressibly correct. His after-discipline in the special pleader's office, and at the bar, carried on the scheme of his education with unbroken uniformity. ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 2, July, 1850. • Various



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