nowness

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The property of happening now, or relating to the present time. countable,uncountable
    — 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.”

词形变化

nownesses plural

词源

Etymology tree
English now
Proto-Germanic *-inōną
Proto-Indo-European *-dyé-
Proto-Germanic *-atjaną
Proto-Indo-European *-tus
Proto-Germanic *-þuz
Proto-Germanic *-assuz
Proto-Germanic *-inassuz
Proto-West Germanic *-nassī
Old English -nes
Middle English -nesse
English -ness
English nowness
From now + -ness.
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