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Currently vs Today - What's the difference?

currently | today |

As adverbs the difference between currently and today

is that currently is at this moment, at present, now while today is on the current day or date.

As a noun today is

a current day or date.

currently

English

Adverb

(en adverb)
  • At this moment, at present, now.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2012, month=March-April
  • , 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.}}

    today

    English

    Alternative forms

    * to-day (archaic)

    Adverb

    (-)
  • On the current day or date.
  • In the current era; nowadays.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-22, volume=407, issue=8841, page=70, magazine=(The Economist)
  • , title=[http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21579879-buy-out-firm-really-does-focus-operational-improvements-engineers Engineers of a different kind] , passage=Private-equity nabobs bristle at being dubbed mere financiers.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A current day or date.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1899, author=(Hughes Mearns)
  • , title= , passage=Yesterday, upon the stair / I met a man who wasn’t there / He wasn’t there again today  / I wish, I wish he’d go away …}}

    Synonyms

    * current day * this day

    Usage notes

    Todays is a mostly literary plural. It refers to days that we experience, have experienced or will experience as "today". More colloquial are (these days) and (nowadays).

    See also

    * nowadays * hodiernal * yesterday * tomorrow night * tonight * last night * nudiustertian