presentness
- n the quality of being the present
a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past"- R.E.Spiller
- He once told a friend that the key to the Cantos was "the presentness of the past," but if there is any connected idea (there is no story) in the Cantos, it is too elusive for .
- The presentness of death is a central element of Judaism.