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
It said it has temporality grounded its fleet of SF-260 TP trainer planes.
From Reuters ● Jan. 25, 2023
At BlackStar, Nkiru’s nonlinear, intergenerational story will be part of a larger conversation about form, temporality and the visual language of contemporary Black cinema.
From New York Times ● Aug. 3, 2022
The effect strips the song of any discernible temporality.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 5, 2022
The temporality of all things—even of the great imperturbable trees—is a thought of endless visitation in Nature.
From Child and Country A Book of the Younger Generation by Comfort, Will Levington
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 Chapter-house was the hall wherein were held the deliberations or councils relative to the administration of temporalities, and here novices were elected or rejected by secret ballot.
From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous
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