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
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
They now inhabit a neoliberal notion of temporality marked by a loss of faith in in the future along with the emergence of apocalyptic narratives in which the future appears indeterminate, bleak and insecure.
From Salon • May 22, 2022
Intuitive activity would then consist in this double and concurrent function of spatiality and temporality.
From Aesthetic as Science of Expression and General Linguistic by Croce, Benedetto
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