atemporal

[ey-tem-per-uhl, ey-tem-pruhl]

adjective

1. free from limitations of time.

   Our dreams, memories, and emotions are atemporal, not grounded in the here and now.

Word History and Origins

Origin of atemporal¹

First recorded in 1865–70; a- ⁶ + temporal ¹

Example Sentences

Arthur Jafa, best known as a filmmaker and cinematographer, is possessed by this obsession, this care for missed, uncategorizable, atemporal images and their traces.

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Turns out that “¡Ay!” is a narrative concept album about a roving, immaterial, atemporal consciousness that, upon becoming embodied, enters society in hopes of understanding its five Aristotelian senses.

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“Atemporal” is more or less a bolero, disassembled and rebuilt in ways that can sound vintage or computer-tweaked, with plenty of clanky percussion; it’s wayward with a purpose.

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She has written a memoir that mimics the atemporal quality of the episodes that give meaning to life.

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Simon Murphy has boiled this down to a pair of slender, hymnal-like volumes whose effect is indescribably peculiar, like the radically atemporal reception of … a newsfeed?

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