hic et nunc
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
Here and now, in the immediate present.
adj
Happening here and now, occurring in the immediate present.
Example Sentences
- "Such sentences explicitly state that something both has taken place and will take place; they are silent about what Bruce and Wayne are doing hic-et-nunc."
- "Perhaps, then, it is wiser, more "realistic," and more fruitful first to examine religion not in relation to a group of individuals but in relation to each one of those individuals, hic et nunc, not on a collective level but on a concrete, personal, and above all psychological level."
- "“We need a Marshall Plan hic et nunc” proffered a man who, to camera and in profile, looked like a sole."
- "But what, more precisely, distinguishes such an actual perception from a solely possible perception if not its accomplishment hic et nunc?"
- "Alice IS WRITING a letter, The tenor IS STRANGLING the soprano, Leigh IS TAKING a shower are examples of genuine hic-et-nunc events."
- "Psychology is the study of behavior which transcends (goes beyond) the given, the initially hic et nunc."
Etymology
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
Usage
Inflected Forms
more hic et nunc (comparative)
most hic et nunc (superlative)
hic-et-nunc (alternative)