temporalize
temporalize verb: to situate in time.
Verb
temporalize (third-person singular simple present temporalizes, present participle temporalizing, simple past and past participle temporalized)
- To situate in time.
- There are probably innumerable rhythms in a sensation during the duration of a second. . . . We are unable to temporalize our sensations of phenomena.1928 November 22, Herman Hausheer, “A Theory of Perception”, in The Journal of Philosophy, volume 25, number 24, page 647
- In each language, mechanisms are available which allow us to classify, serialize, localize, and temporalize the objects of possible experience.1976, Jürgen Habermas, “Some Distinctions in Universal Pragmatics: A Working Paper”, in Theory and Society, volume 3, number 2, page 161
- To secularize.
Examples of temporalize in a sentence
- Spencer begins with an idea in the Platonist sense, which he proceeds to unfold, to spatialize and temporalize in the universe of fiction.1991, S. K. Heninger, Jr., “Spenser, Sidney, and Poetic Form”, in Studies in Philology, volume 88, number 2, page 147:
- Whereas the other intentional threads spatialize and temporalize a surround with somewhat limited range . . ., discourse discloses world.2002, Corey Anton, “Discourse as Care: A Phenomenological Consideration of Spatiality and Temporality”, in Human Studies, volume 25, number...
Forms of temporalize
| third-person singular present | temporalizes |
|---|---|
| present participle | temporalizing |
| past participle | temporalized |
| past | temporalized |
| alternative form | temporalise |
Origin of temporalize
From temporal + -ize.
Words formed from temporalize
- temporalization
- temporalizer
Questions about temporalize
- What does temporalize mean?
- Temporalize means to situate in time.
- How do you use temporalize in a sentence?
- Spencer begins with an idea in the Platonist sense, which he proceeds to unfold, to spatialize and temporalize in the universe of fiction.
- What part of speech is temporalize?
- Temporalize is a verb.
- What is the past tense of temporalize?
- The past tense of temporalize is temporalized.
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