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How to use temporality in a sentence

10 example sentences · noun

Temporality means the condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal). Example: “"This means 'that all temporality points beyond itself' (Hart 1973, 32)."”

Examples of temporality by meaning

nounThe condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).

  • "This means 'that all temporality points beyond itself' (Hart 1973, 32)."1996, Douwe Tiemersma, Henk Oosterling, Time and Temporality in Intercultural Perspective

More sentences with temporality

  • But by questioning the nature of primary time, unsuspected aspects of temporality come to the fore.1990, Edith Wyschogrod, Saints and Postmodernism: Revisioning Moral Philosophy, page 94. From the entry primary time
  • Hence the ecstatical projection of Being must be made possible by some primordial way in which ecstatical temporality temporalizes.2017, Albert Peter Pacelli, Being and Intelligibility, page 249. From the entry ecstatical
  • These risks are 'debounded', respecting neither state boundaries nor particular temporalities, nor are they clearly tied to one actor or source.2013, William Coleman, Alina Sajed, Fifty Key Thinkers on Globalization, Routledge, →ISBN, page 37. From the entry debounded
  • Rather it is the unity of the three ecstasies of the temporality that constitutes the circumspective concern in its temporality.2000, Vensus A. George, The Experience of Being as Goal of Human Existence, page 118. From the entry circumspective
  • Unlike evenemential temporality, which captures historicity in real time, we are dealing with a deferred temporality, the recording of an event that has already happened.2015, Flavia Santoianni, The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy, →ISBN, page 178. From the entry evenemential
  • The core mystery of the book, the Time Tombs of Hyperion, have their own temporality, moving backwards through time, transecting the pilgrims’ present.2005, Roger Luckhurst, Science Fiction, Polity, →ISBN, page 226, →ISBN. From the entry contemporalities
  • The techno-futurist quest for life extension is an attempt to open out the lifespan of the individual so as to be continuous with the linear temporality of capitalist production.2016, Charles Thorpe, Necroculture, page 120. From the entry techno-futurist
  • The simultaneity of communications technology might contribute to a particular timescape, but this may well be in tension with the temporality of its communicative content or social application.2012, Emily Keightley, “Conclusion”, in Emily Keightley, editor, Time, Media and Modernity, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan…. From the entry timescape
  • In its radical transcendence of all finite states the subject enters into the space of a nunc stans, in the face of which all temporality becomes an unreal appearance.2005, Robert Spaemann, Happiness and Benevolence. From the entry nunc stans

Meaning of temporality

  1. noun The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).
  2. noun The secular property and assets of a church.

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Questions about temporality in a sentence

How do you use temporality in a sentence?
Temporality is used as a noun. For example: “"This means 'that all temporality points beyond itself' (Hart 1973, 32)."”
What is a short sentence with temporality?
“"This means 'that all temporality points beyond itself' (Hart 1973, 32)."”
What does temporality mean?
Temporality means the condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).

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