temporality
Americannoun
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temporalities
plural
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temporal character or nature; temporariness.
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something temporal.
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Usually temporalities. a worldly or secular possession, revenue, or the like, as of the church or clergy.
noun
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the state or quality of being temporal
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something temporal
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(often plural) a secular possession or revenue belonging to a Church, a group within the Church, or the clergy
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of temporality
1350–1400; Middle English temporalite < Late Latin temporālitās. See temporal 1, -ity
Example Sentences
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In its atmosphere of gnawing discomfort with imposed secrecy about bad men, “On Becoming a Guinea Fowl” is a uniquely dimensional work of character and temporality.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 7, 2025
Fuentes’s approach to temporality — where “all times are important,” she said, and “no time has ever been resolved” — is a particular touchstone.
From New York Times ● Feb. 4, 2024
It said it has temporality grounded its fleet of SF-260 TP trainer planes.
From Reuters ● Jan. 25, 2023
Black hair disobeys temporality as surely as it does gravity ...
From Salon ● Jul. 26, 2022
I would have brought him to no longer regretting his temporality; I would have made him an idol.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 2 by Durand, John
Kusama had intended to cast a younger actress in the film, which would have made straddling the story’s two temporalities easier, but she could not pass up the opportunity to work with Kidman.
From New York Times ● Dec. 20, 2018
Like “La Lontananza,” this is a duet of temporalities, an interaction between a live player and a tape, this time of the pianist Maurizio Pollini.
From New York Times ● Mar. 28, 2016
Erpenbeck was born in East Berlin, in 1967; herself a witness to some fairly turbulent European history, she is drawn to long perspectives and political temporalities.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 4, 2016
It was an odd sensation, as if the two distinct temporalities had blended into one.
From Slate ● Jul. 27, 2014
The practice of granting the temporalities by investiture shows that, even before the Conquest, Church lands were to some extent regarded in a feudal light, and since then this idea had gained strength.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William
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