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/ˈpɹɛzn̩s/ · noun
The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand..
Any painter can benefit from the presence of a live model from which to draw.
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
Bob never said anything about it in my presence.
Despite being less than five foot, she filled up the theatre with her stage presence.
Perrin Ferris succeeds in his equally demanding task of maintaining some semblance of presence while sharing the stage with a chronic upstager.
I'm convinced that there was a presence in that building that I can't explain, which led to my heroic actions.
2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press, →ISBN (paperback), page 118, From the overtaxing of the regime's paranoiac classifications and monitoring of the social field, Heidegger was to await in vain the presencing of that which is present, the revelation of the Being of beings in its precedence to governmental control.
Presence means: the constant abiding that approaches man, reaches him, is extended to him. But what is this source of this extending reach to which the present belongs as presencing, insofar as there is presence? True, man always remains approached by the presencing of something actually present without explicitly heeding presencing itself.
Use presence when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Presence means The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand..
Common synonyms include room tone, bearing, front, comportment.
Possible antonyms include absence, missingness.
Any painter can benefit from the presence of a live model from which to draw.
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