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Presence vs Availability - What's the difference?

presence | availability |

As nouns the difference between presence and availability

is that presence is the fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand while availability is the quality of being available.

As a verb presence

is to make or become present.

presence

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The fact or condition of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand.
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  • *: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.
  • The part of space within one's immediate vicinity.
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  • A quality of poise and effectiveness that enables a performer to achieve a close relationship with his audience.
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  • Something (as a spirit) felt or believed to be present.
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  • A company's business activity in a particular market.
  • The state of being closely focused on the here and now, not distracted by irrelevant thoughts

    • Antonyms

    * absence

    Derived terms

    * compresence * copresence * presence of mind * real presence * stage presence

    Verb

    (presenc)
  • (philosophy) To make or become present.
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  • * 1985 , David Edward Shaner, The Bodymind Experience in Japanese Buddhism: A Phenomenological Study of K?kai and D?gen , page 59,
    • 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 .
  • * 1998 , H. Peter Steeves, Founding Community: A Phenomenological-Ethical Inquiry , page 59,
    • 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.
  • * 2005 , James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry , Stanford University Press, ISBN 0804750718 (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.
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    • Related terms

    * present * presentation

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    availability

    English

    Noun

    (availabilities)
  • (chiefly, uncountable) The quality of being available.
    • What is your availability this week?
  • (countable) That which is available.
    • We have several availabilities .

    Synonyms

    * (quality of being available) availableness, accessibility

    Antonyms

    * (quality of being available) unavailability