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epochality

epochality noun: the state or quality of pertaining to an epoch.

Noun

epochality (uncountable)

  1. (rare) The state or quality of pertaining to an epoch.
  2. (rare) The primitial abilitude pervading someone or something from which the rousing of an epoch stems.
  3. (rare) A state of being momentous; importance; significance.
    • It is in part this epochality that leads to Jeyifo's proleptic postcolonialism. However this was in no small part because the epochality of the nation took shape under the aegis of a decolonization process that then succeeded in elevating the struggles and sacrifices of political elites against...2015, Ato Quayson, The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel, Cambridge University Press, page 8
    • Derrida gives a rather tentative beginning of an answer: The unfolding of difference is perhaps not solely the truth of Being, or of the epochality of Being.2016, James Luchte, Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy - Mortal Thought: Hölderlin and Philosophy, Bloosbury Publishing, (unpaginated)

Examples of epochality in a sentence

  • It is in part this epochality that leads to Jeyifo's proleptic postcolonialism.2015, Ato Quayson, The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel, Cambridge University Press, page 8
  • And I explore the question of, and the conditions for, an exceptional contemporary epochality, whose exceptional difficulty is what I have characterized elsewhere as the epochal double re-doubled.2010, Bernard Stiegler - Translated by Stephen Barker, Technics and Time - 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise, Stanford...

Origin of epochality

From epochal + -ity.

Questions about epochality

What does epochality mean?
Epochality means the state or quality of pertaining to an epoch.
How do you use epochality in a sentence?
It is in part this epochality that leads to Jeyifo's proleptic postcolonialism.
What part of speech is epochality?
Epochality is a noun.

Words near epochality in the dictionary

  1. epoch
  2. epoch-making
  3. EPOCH-R
  4. epocha
  5. epochal
  6. epochality
  7. epochally
  8. Epochalypse
  9. epochas
  10. epoche
  11. epoched

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