Tomorrow is a
temporal construct of the relative
future
The future is the time after the past and present. Its arrival is considered inevitable due to the existence of time and the laws of physics. Due to the apparent nature of reality and the unavoidability of the future, everything that currently ex ...
; literally of the
day
A day is the time rotation period, period of a full Earth's rotation, rotation of the Earth with respect to the Sun. On average, this is 24 hours (86,400 seconds). As a day passes at a given location it experiences morning, afternoon, evening, ...
after the current day (
today), or figuratively of future periods or times. Tomorrow is usually considered just beyond the
present
The present is the period of time that is occurring now. The present is contrasted with the past, the period of time that has already occurred; and the future, the period of time that has yet to occur.
It is sometimes represented as a hyperplan ...
and counter to
yesterday. It is important in
time perception because it is the first direction the
arrow of time takes humans on Earth.
Philosophy
The use of terms such as tomorrow, now and future are part an
a-series view which is part of the
presentism philosophy of time.
Learning and language
For a young child, "tomorrow" is "an undefined, infinite time of the idea that time is just an infinite and arbitrary definition of an yet unidentified of what we like to call time, yet the child slowly learns the meaning of tomorrow." The concept of "tomorrow" is rarely understood by 3-year-old children, but 4-year-olds understand the idea.
References
Future
Days
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