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temporality

temporality noun: the condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).

Noun

temporality (countable and uncountable, plural temporalities)

  1. The 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
    • [1927], 2000 Martin Heidegger Being and Timehttp://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=9oc2BnZMCZgC&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=temporality&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Dtemporality&sig=_AHDrBvcln9-ZTvV9JKNgDGazRY
      Temporality makes possible the unity of existence, facticity, and falling...
  2. (plural, plural-only) The secular property and assets of a church.

temporality meaning in Tamil and Kannada

temporality in Tamil

காலச்சார்பு, காலச்சார்புநிலை, காலத்ததுவம், காலச்சார்புத் தன்மை, இம்மைச்சார்பு, இம்மைச்சார்பு நிலை

temporality in Kannada

ಮತೀಯ ಸಂಸ್ಥೆಗಳ ಆಸ್ತಿಪಾಸ್ತಿ, ಲೌಕಿಕ ಆಸ್ತಿ

Examples of temporality in a sentence

  • But by questioning the nature of primary time, unsuspected aspects of temporality come to the fore.
  • Hence the ecstatical projection of Being must be made possible by some primordial way in which ecstatical temporality temporalizes.
  • These risks are 'debounded', respecting neither state boundaries nor particular temporalities, nor are they clearly tied to one actor or source.

All 10 example sentences with temporality

Forms of temporality

pluraltemporalities

Origin of temporality

From temporal + -ity, from Latin temporalitas.

Words formed from temporality

Words that rhyme with temporality

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Questions about temporality

What does temporality mean?
Temporality means the condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).
What is temporality in Tamil?
Temporality in Tamil is காலச்சார்பு, காலச்சார்புநிலை, காலத்ததுவம். See Temporality meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is temporality?
Temporality is a noun.
What is the plural of temporality?
The plural of temporality is temporalities.

Words near temporality in the dictionary

  1. temporalist
  2. temporalistic
  3. temporalistically
  4. temporalists
  5. temporalities
  6. temporality
  7. temporalization
  8. temporalizations
  9. temporalize
  10. temporalized
  11. temporalizes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: temporality (page history and authors); temporality (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); temporality (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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