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Currently vs Nowaday - What's the difference?

currently | nowaday |

As adverbs the difference between currently and nowaday

is that currently is at this moment, at present, now while nowaday is .

As an adjective nowaday is

existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.

As a noun nowaday is

(lb) the present period; contemporary times.

currently

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • At this moment, at present, now.
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    • , author=John T. Jost , title=Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)? , volume=100, issue=2, page=162 , magazine=(American Scientist) citation , passage=He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.}}

    nowaday

    English

    Adjective

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  • Existing nowadays; current, present; contemporary.
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  • *2005 , Amelia Glaser, David Weintraub, Yankl Salant, Proletpen: America’s Rebel Yiddish Poets :
    • The red sealing wax drips and flames: a piece of the heart I hold in my hand over the candle of my nowaday sorrow.
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    • Synonyms

    * (from the present time) current, present

    Adverb

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    • Usage notes

    * Principally used by non-native speakers and in reported speech in fiction. It is also an archaic form.

    Noun

  • (lb) The present period; contemporary times.
  • * 1987 , W.J.Aerts, "Appendix: The Latin-Greek Wordlist in MS 236 of the Municipal Library of Avranches, FOL. 97v", Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1986 edited by Reginald Allen Brown, Boydell & Brewer (ISBN 9780851154763), page 69
    • If so, it should be noted that ?????????? does not exist in nowaday's South Italian, and, probably, did not either in medieval South Italian (though it is not excluded, of course, because during the presence of the Byzantines in (Southern) Italy a greater influence of the Byzantine koine of that time can be postulated).
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