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What is the adjective for presentness?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verbs pre, presence, present and presentiate which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

present
  1. Relating to now, for the time being; current.
  2. Located in the immediate vicinity.
  3. (obsolete) Having an immediate effect (of a medicine, poison etc.); fast-acting. [16th-18th c.]
  4. (obsolete) Not delayed; immediate; instant.
  5. (dated) Ready; quick in emergency.
  6. (obsolete) Favorably attentive; propitious.
  7. Relating to something a person is referring to in the very context, with a deictic use similar to the demonstrative adjective this.
  8. Attentive; alert; focused.
  9. Synonyms:
  10. Examples:
    1. “There is a clear and present danger within our ranks, and we need to weed it out now.”
      “This staple has been around for hundreds of years and continues to this present day to be the food of choice for our culture.”
      “It's encouraging to see the Brotherhood of the Mutants present, but, unsurprisingly, Wolverine has decided to give us an uninvited visit.”
pres.
  1. Abbreviation of present.
  2. Abbreviation of presidential.
  3. Abbreviation of presumed.
  4. Abbreviation of presumptive.
presentative
  1. Capable of being directly known by, or presented to, the mind; intuitive; directly apprehensible, as objects; capable of apprehending, as faculties.
  2. (ecclesiastical, law) Having the right of presentation, or offering a clergyman to the bishop for institution.
  3. Admitting the presentation of a clergyman.
  4. Examples:
    1. “The benefice became presentative in 1899 and was called a vicarage from the first institution.”
      “If we wish to cultivate the Representative faculties, we must begin by cultivating the presentative faculties.”
      “In opposition to presentative realism, Dewey offers his 'naturalistic' interpretation of knowledge.”
presential
  1. (now rare) Implying actual presence; present. [from 15th c.]
  2. (grammar) Pertaining to the present tense. [from 19th c.]
  3. Examples:
    1. “The immediacy, infallibility and successful cognition of presential knowledge privileges it over other epistemological models.”
      “Critical to presential knowledge is the Porphyrian doctrine of the unity of the intellect, the intellecting subject and its intelligible object.”
      “Suhrawardi himself considered spiritual exercises a necessary preparation for the advent of presential knowledge and vision of the Lights.”
presentive
  1. Bringing a conception or notion directly before the mind; presenting an object to the memory of imagination.
  2. Examples:
    1. “How greatly the word "will" is felt to have lost presentive power in the last three centuries.”
presented
presentable
  1. In good enough shape to be shown to other people; tidy; attractive.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “Fortunately, the hotel had a very presentable room, and we were able to leave our guests satisfied that they were being treated with proper consideration.”
      “Lizzie was looking presentable in a clean cotton nightdress, with her hair freshly combed.”
      “We have not had an opportunity to sufficiently analyze it to present it in a presentable fashion before this committee.”
presenced
  1. That has been presenced; that has been made present.
presentational
presentless
  1. Without a present time.
pred
  1. (informal) Abbreviation of predefined.
presencing
  1. present participle of presence
presenting
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