temporality
Americannoun
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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
That’s because Nelson’s sons Lukas and Micah understand their father’s unique position in temporality with an intimacy the rest of us will never comprehend.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2023
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 have no charge, Dr. Lundin," replied the page— "Call me not doctor," said the chamberlain, "since I have laid aside my furred gown and bonnet, and retired me into this temporality of chamberlainship."
From The Abbot by Scott, Walter, Sir
She began to imagine a piece with layered temporalities, one that would hark back to the former natural abundance of New York, critique contemporary inequities and confront the future.
From New York Times ● Sep. 30, 2022
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 archbishop escaped across the Thames in a boat, and went abroad, and the king again seized the temporalities of the see.
From The English Church in the Middle Ages by Hunt, William
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