presence

Forms

1.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.
2.The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
- Bob never said anything about it in my presence.
3.A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with their audience.
4.A quality that sets an individual out from others; a quality that makes them noticed and/or admired even if they are not speaking or performing.
- 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.

1.To make or become present.
- Benner (1984) captures the essence of this when she describes presencing as the art of 'being with' a person without the need to be 'doing to' the person.
- Just as the bread and butter can be presenced as more than just the bread and the butter, so baking a loaf of bread can be more than just the baking, the baker, and the bread.
- Within a completely neutral horizon, the primordial continuous stream of experience is presenced without interruption. As this time, the past and future have no meaning apart from the now in which they are presenced.

Common· #1448

Through Old French presence, from Latin praesentia (“a being present”), from praesentem.

Displaced native Old English andweardnes.