When to use 今現在 instead of 今 or 現在?


I came across the word 今現在 and I can't figure out when to use it. I found out
it [means](https://jisho.org/search/%E4%BB%8A%E7%8F%BE%E5%9C%A8) "just now; at
this moment; at this point of time" but this information doesn't really help
me understand when to use it instead of 今 or 現在.

I am (somewhat) aware of the difference between 今 and 現在. Both refer to the
present time and can overlap in their usage in some cases, being 今 the closer
to "now" in terms of "the immediate time physically speaking" and 現在 closer to
"the present time", "currently as opposed to the past or the future". While I
might be inaccurate or even outright wrong in my understanding of both words,
at least I have some difference I can rely on when trying to decide when to
use one or the other, but with 今現在 I am lost.

I found the word in the book N2新完全マスター page 4, in the section 問題紹介:

>
> よく、「自分が本当にやりたいことをみつけなければならない」と、あたかもそれが動力すれば必ずみつかるもののように語られ、プレッシャーを感じる人も多いと思いますが、私はそれがみつかるかどうかは、極端にいって「運」しだいだと思います。だから、
> **今現在** 、それがみつかっていない **から** といって、焦ることも、自己嫌悪に陥ることもありません。

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I am also probably missing some crucial information related to this から bit
that I highlighted that makes the sentence more confusing to me. I just parsed
the sentence skipping this から in the following way to try to understand it:

> だから、 **今現在** 、それがみつかっていない ** ~~から~~** といって[ **も** ]、焦ることも、自己嫌悪に陥ることもありません。

For this reason, だから

even if といって[も]

I haven't found this それがみつかっていない

at this moment, 今現在

it's not the case that こともありません

I fret 焦る

or I’ve fallen into self-hatred 自己嫌悪に陥る.

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When is 今現在 preferable to 今 and 現在? Could 今現在 be replaced by 今 or 現在 in the
provided context?




It's just a longer and thus more emphatic version of 今. It's one of the words
used when you want something stronger than "now". It's like "right at this
moment". Semantically, I think 今現在 is much closer to 今 than to 現在.




It's just a longer and thus more emphatic version of 今. It's one of the words
used when you want something stronger than "now". It's like "right at this
moment". Semantically, I think 今現在 is much closer to 今 than to 現在.

