nowhen

English

Etymology

no +‎ when, by analogy with nowhere. See quotation from 1996.

Noun

nowhen (uncountable)

1. (philosophy) A point from which one has an unrestricted perspective in time.
   • 1996, Huw Price, Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point, Oxford University Press:

     I want to show that if we want to understand the asymmetry of time then we need to be able to understand, and quarantine, the various ways in which our patterns of thought reflect the peculiarities of our own temporal perspective. We need to acquaint ourselves with what might aptly be called the view from nowhen.

Adverb

nowhen (not comparable)

1. In or at no (point in) time.
   • 1915, Clement Charles Julian Webb, Studies in the History of Natural Theology, page 186:

     Again, whatever is not here nor there, now nor then, is capable of being nowhen or nowhere; and so all things which consist of parts, though they may exist always (like Time) or everywhere (like the Universe), […]

   • 2017 October 3, Albert Peter Pacelli, Being and Intelligibility, Wipf and Stock Publishers, →ISBN, page 220:

     Do they have continuous existence, nowhere and nowhen, or are they created as needed by categorial reason? On what ground can we postulate them in order to define truth? If they merely copy the world why do we need them and how do we […]

See also

• nowhen else