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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
nowness is a noun meaning "the quality of being the present". It carries one recorded sense.
the quality of being the present
“a study of the pastness of the present and...of the presentness of the past”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nowness come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.