presentness

2 definitions found

presentness - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Presentness \Pres"ent*ness\, n.
     The quality or state of being present; presence. [Obs.]
     "Presentness of mind in danger." --Clarendon.
     [1913 Webster]

presentness - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  presentness
      n 1: the quality of being the present; "a study of the pastness
           of the present and...of the presentness of the past"-
           R.E.Spiller [syn: presentness, nowness] [ant:
           futurity, pastness]