Definitions
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- noun The property of happening
now , or relating tonow .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the quality of being the present
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Examples
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'nowness' - real-time information - is a new concept that wasn't around when Google started, or even a few years ago.
Media news, UK and world media comment and analysis | guardian.co.uk 2010
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Wax philosophical about how there is a persistent "nowness" to the web, evocative of a timeless, eternal existence currently beyond our ability to grasp.
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Wax philosophical about how there is a persistent "nowness" to the web, evocative of a timeless, eternal existence currently beyond our ability to grasp.
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He said Luke, this year's lectionary Gospel, emphasized the "nowness" of God's action in Jesus.
The Christian Post RSS Feed Jenna Lyle 2010
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The source of the problem, according to Rushkoff, was an outdated industrial model made obsolete by the "nowness" of the Internet.
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But the concept of "nowness" and immediacy give us a great way to make sense of it, and a better understanding of how to make it work for us.
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There followed a new piece by Thomas Larcher "What Becomes" which behaved like a curtain-raiser to Mussorgsky's Pictures being full of Mussorgskian rhetoric and declamation and the odd plucked and scraped piano string to assert its "nowness".
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There followed a new piece by Thomas Larcher "What Becomes" which behaved like a curtain-raiser to Mussorgsky's Pictures being full of Mussorgskian rhetoric and declamation and the odd plucked and scraped piano string to assert its "nowness".
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'nowness', thrilled and galvanized by the possibilities of onrushing modernity.
NME Features 2009
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A golden couple is always worth more than the sum of its parts and Mr and Mrs Jopling's presence seemed to validate the "nowness" of any event.
Jay Jopling: portrait of the perfect gallerist | profile 2011
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