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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But according to his family, friends and colleagues, the knowledge of life’s temporality was also what made Candy the kind, compassionate man he was.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 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
And I feel like practices that are performance-based, that have a durational relation to materials, that are functioning within their own temporality outside of these market calendars — there is a power to that.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2022
The Bishop of Rome possessed his temporality by all these titles.
From The Faith of Our Fathers by James Gibbons
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
Even the English government made no opposition, and he received the temporalities of the see on the 1st of April, 1329.
From The Irish Ecclesiastical Record, Volume 1, March 1865 by Various
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