here and now

English

Alternative forms

• here-and-now

Etymology

here + and + now

Adverb

here and now (not comparable)

1. At this time and in this place.
   • 1971, Lyndon Johnson, The Vantage Point‎^[1], Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 75:

     On January 8, 1964, in my first State of the Union address to the Congress, I announced: "This administration today, here and now, declares unconditional war on poverty in America." I warned that "it will not be a short or easy struggle" but that it was a war "we cannot afford to lose."

Translations

at this time and in this place

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 此时此地 (zh)

• Danish: her og nu
• Finnish: tässä ja nyt
• German: hier und jetzt
• Greek: εδώ και τώρα (edó kai tóra)
• Hungarian: itt és most
• Icelandic: hér og nú
• Latin: hic et nunc
• Swedish: här och nu

See also

• at this moment in time
• then and there

Noun

here and now (plural not attested)

1. The present situation.
   • 1920, Paul Klee, (Please provide the book title or journal name), from an exhibition catalogue:

     I cannot be grasped in the here and now. For I reside just as much with the dead as with the unborn. Somewhat closer to the heart of creation than usual. But not nearly close enough.

   • 2020 December 16, Nigel Harris interviews Mark Thurston, “HS2 is still the right thing to do...”, in Rail, page 41:

     Cutting line capacity by 4tph (around 30 trains a day) would slash revenues (seats). HS2 would be hobbled. But politicians like the idea of cutting costs in the here and now.

2. The current state of one's own life.

Synonyms

• (present situation): now; see also Thesaurus:the present

Translations

present situation

• Dutch: hier en nu (nl) n
• Finnish: nykyhetki (fi)
• Greek: παρόν (el) n (parón)

current state of one's own life

• Finnish: nykytila