hic et nunc

English

Alternative forms

• hic-et-nunc

Etymology

From Latin hic et nunc (“here and now”).

Adverb

hic et nunc (comparative more hic et nunc, superlative most hic et nunc)

1. Here and now, in the immediate present.
   • 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 doing hic-et-nunc.

   • 2000, Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Vernant, Ancestor of the West, →ISBN, page 51:

     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 Plan hic 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 accomplishment hic et nunc?

Translations

Translations

• Finnish: tässä ja nyt
• French: ici et maintenant (fr)
• Italian: qui ed ora
• Polish: tu i teraz
• Spanish: aquí y ahora

Adjective

hic et nunc (not comparable)

1. Happening here and now, occurring in the immediate present.
   • 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 genuine hic-et-nunc events.

   • 2012, A. Fried, Joseph Agassi, Psychiatry as Medicine: Contemporary Psychotherapies, →ISBN, page 144:

     Psychology is the study of behavior which transcends (goes beyond) the given, the initially hic et nunc.

Noun

hic et nunc (uncountable)

1. The here and now, the immediate present.
   • 1980, Alexandre Kojeve, Introduction to the Reading of Hegel: Lectures on the Phemenology of Spirit

     The hic et nunc, represented by a point on this line, is determined, 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 the hic 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.

See also

• here and now