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kairotic

kairotic adjective: related to, or characteristic of a kairos.

Adjective

kairotic (comparative more kairotic, superlative most kairotic)

  1. Related to, or characteristic of a kairos.
    • They seem to have a kairotic sense of timing. Some people dismiss this as luck. But it's much more than that.2005, John Clemens, Scott Dalrymple, Time Mastery: How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You a Stronger, More Effective Leader, →ISBN, page 127
    • The present captured in a cartoon is a kairotic present—a present that affects the life of a people, the destiny of a nation2005, C.S. Song, Theology from the Womb of Asia, →ISBN, page 38

Examples of kairotic in a sentence

  • Regardless of the quantity of the duration, because a kairotic event cannot happen at just “any time,” it is also distinct from an abstract articulation of chance.2009, John Muckelbauer, The Future of Invention: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change, →ISBN, page 116:
  • Kairotic moments may present themselves to vigilant rhetors, but in turn rhetors can craft a kairotic moment as well.2013, Zach Waggoner, My Avatar, My Self: Identity in Video Role-Playing Games, →ISBN, page 60:

Forms of kairotic

comparativemore kairotic
superlativemost kairotic

Origin of kairotic

From kairos + -otic.

Questions about kairotic

What does kairotic mean?
Kairotic means related to, or characteristic of a kairos.
How do you use kairotic in a sentence?
Regardless of the quantity of the duration, because a kairotic event cannot happen at just “any time,” it is also distinct from an abstract articulation of chance.
What part of speech is kairotic?
Kairotic is an adjective.

Words near kairotic in the dictionary

  1. kairoline
  2. kairomonal
  3. kairomone
  4. kairomones
  5. kairos
  6. kairotic
  7. Kairouan
  8. Kairouani
  9. kaisa
  10. Kaisariani
  11. Kaisarieh

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