FromLatinhic et nunc(“here and now”).
hicetnunc (comparativemorehic et nunc,superlativemosthic et nunc)
- Here and now, in the immediatepresent.
1995,Andrew L. Sihler,New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin:Such sentences explicitly state that something both has taken place and will take place; they are silent about what Bruce and Wayne are doinghic-et-nunc.
2000, Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Vernant,Ancestor of the West,→ISBN, page51: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.
2012, Alain Mabanckou,Black Bazaar,→ISBN:“We need a Marshall Planhic et nunc” proffered a man who, to camera and in profile, looked like a sole.
2015, Burt Hopkins, Steven Crowell,The New Yearbook for Phenomenology and Phenomenological Philosophy,→ISBN:But what, more precisely, distinguishes such an actual perception from a solely possible perception if not its accomplishmenthic et nunc?
hicetnunc (notcomparable)
- Happeninghere and now, occurring in the immediatepresent.
1995,Andrew L. Sihler,New Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin:Alice IS WRITING a letter, The tenor IS STRANGLING the soprano, Leigh IS TAKING a shower are examples of genuinehic-et-nunc events.
2012, A. Fried, Joseph Agassi,Psychiatry as Medicine: Contemporary Psychotherapies,→ISBN, page144:Psychology is the study of behavior which transcends (goes beyond) the given, the initiallyhic et nunc.
hicetnunc (uncountable)
- Thehere and now, the immediatepresent.
- 1980, Alexandre Kojeve,Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phemenology of Spirit
- Thehic et nunc, represented by a point on this line, isdetermined, fixed, and defined by the past which, through it, determines the future as well.
2012, John Foster,New Masters of Poster Design, Volume 2,→ISBN:"I draw every day, mostly what is around me -- not just the places and the people, but the sounds of them...the light on them," he explains. “Something about thehic et nunc (here and now)—by that, I mean I have the feeling that drawing is helping me to understand the unique world around me, always changing. “I design posters for people whose work I admire,” he continues.
