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nounnowness (countable and uncountable, plural nownesses)
plural nownesses
- countableuncountablehuman sciencesThe property of happening now, or relating to the present time.
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.”
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, →ISSN, archived from the original on 26 May 2025
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nowness. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nowness
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“nowness.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nowness. Accessed November 4, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nowness,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nowness.
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