Synonyms and related words :
affairs, circumstances, concerns, condition of things, conditions, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness, dealings, doings, goings-on, historical present, life, march of events, matters, modernity, newness, now, nowadays, nowness, our times, present, present tense, presentness, proceedings, relations, run of things, state of affairs, the Now Generation, the nonce, the now, the present, the present age, the present day, the present hour, the present juncture, the present time, the time being, the times, the world, these days, this day, this hour, this instant, this moment, this point, this stage, today, what happens|