What is "durational"

Usage examples of "durational".

THE PACE OF LIFE 36 People of the Future 37 Durational Expectancy 42 The Concept of Transience 44 PART TWO: TRANSIENCE 49 Chapter 4.

Yet without a rich set of socially appropriate durational expectancies, no individual could function successfully.

Even the family dog--having also learned a set of durational expectancies--is aware of the break in routine.

It is these durational expectancies, different in each society but learned early and deeply ingrained, that are shaken up when the pace of life is altered.

Unless an individual has adjusted his durational expectancies to take account of continuing acceleration, he is likely to suppose that two situations, similar in other respects, will also be similar in duration.

Anticipating that situations will endure less long, he is less frequently caught off guard and jolted than the person whose durational expectancies are frozen, the person who does not routinely anticipate a frequent shortening in the duration of situations.

Armed with a culturally conditioned set of durational expectancies, we have all learned to invest with emotional content those relationships that appear to us to be "permanent" or relatively long-lasting, while withholding emotion, as much as possible, from short-term relationships.

All of us approach human relationships, as we approach other kinds of relationships, with a set of built-in durational expectancies.

Roughly in order of descending durational expectancies, these are relationships with friends, neighbors, job associates, and co-members of churches, clubs and other voluntary organizations.

Transience necessarily affects the durational expectancies with which persons approach new situations.

Lib turned toward me and said softly, "Biological time versus durational time, Twin.

I found that I was hungry, even though breakfast was three hours ago, biological time-almost all of it spent in Beulahland, programming for the caper, as all three phases took only a few durational minutes, mostly on a rooftop in Boondock.

Time-sense and durational perception go all to hell, as do coordination, motor skills, and concentration—and yet often the patient, turning inward, makes a quantum leap toward a new plateau of self-understanding and insight.