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temporality

Word definitions for temporality in dictionaries

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
In philosophy , temporality is traditionally the linear progression of past, present, and future. However, some modern-century philosophers have interpreted temporality in ways other than this linear manner. Examples would be McTaggart 's The Unreality ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal.)

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Temporality \Tem`po*ral"i*ty\, n.; pl. Temporalities . [L. temporalitas, in LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalit['e].] The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity. The laity; temporality. [Obs.] --Sir T. More. That ...

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. the worldly possessions of a church [syn: temporalty ]

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "temporal power," from Late Latin temporalitas , from temporalis "of a time, but for a time" (see temporal ).

Usage examples of temporality.

All consciousness involves temporality for Sartre, for it is always directed toward a future and posited against the background of a past.

But the reader believes in the reality of the novels mainly because the temporality, the time experienced, is accompanied discreetly but continuously by a precise chronology which establishes an objective time, from which the hero is struggling to escape.

In fact, from our perspective the transcendentalism of temporality is destroyed most decisively by the fact that it is now impossible to measure labor, either by convention or by calculation.

It becomes ever more difficult for Empire to intervene in the unforeseeable temporal sequences of events when they accelerate their temporality.

If, in his agitation, Henry remembered Rome, he was perhaps not very much alarmed by the specter of Pope Alexander, who had lately besought Angevin support to gain the throne of Saint Peter, and who had only just ventured back to his temporalities from his long exile in Provence.

We may have had no prejudices in favor of the Papal temporality when we landed at Pictou, but this church was the only one which impressed us, and the only one we took the trouble to visit.

Men before Herjellsen had doubted the sensibility-independent nature of space and time, notably and most famously the tiny, hunchbacked, brilliant Prussian, Immanuel Kant, but Kant had not had at his disposal the mathematics of polydimensional temporalities, and Kant had been rational in a way that Herjellsen was not.

The king was too weak, too restricted in his action by the feudal constitution to reach them, and the higher clergy were ex officio sovereigns, princes, barons, or feudal lords, and were led by their private interests to act with the feudal nobility, save when that nobility threatened the temporalities of the church.

Hence the encouragement we have given to all those schemes of thought such as Creative Evolution, Scientific Humanism, or Communism, which fix men's affections on the Future, on the very core of temporality.

There was very little information on the concrete layers used in everyday discourse, and the higher-level modulations all concerned the strange tenses and temporalities that they had discussed the day before.

As it had been all along, the higher-level modulations all incorporated strange tenses and conditional temporalities that seemed to confuse even Rilla and Virigu, it seemed.

Research into earlier temporalities and proto-temporalities was enlarging an understanding of the birth of the universe.

They were distant and isolated temporalities shrunken to toy constructions in the lonely waste of what seemed a desert—and was.

Then, the mysterious, magical metacetacean Water engine with which the Hub was associated reached into the informational underweave of things, and tweaked at temporality.