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timescape

Syllables: time·scapeUK/ˈtaɪmskeɪp/

timescape noun: a perspective over a period (particularly a long period) of time.

timescape: a perspective over a period (particularly a long period) of time
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Noun

timescape (plural timescapes)

  1. A perspective over a period (particularly a long period) of time.
    • Our timescape of life is really a picture showing the fluctuating diversity of life over the past 700 million years. There was little diversity before that time owing to the dominance of blue-green algae. What our timescape shows is, as expected, a number of surges in the diversity of life: […]1996, Graeme Donald Snooks, “Players in the Game”, in The Dynamic Society: Exploring the Sources of Global Change, London; New York, N.Y.: Routledge, →ISBN, page 43
    • With the idea of the timescape, I seek to achieve an extension of the landscape perspective, that is, to develop an analogous receptiveness to temporal interdependencies and absences, and to grasp environmental phenomena as complex temporal, contextually specific wholes. This involves a shift in...1998, Barbara Adam, “Nature Re/Constituted and Re/Conceptualised: Mapping the Scope of Industrial Traditions of Thought”, in Timescapes of Modernity: The Environment and Invisible Hazards (Global...
  2. A multi-dimensional view of time, especially one in which time travel occurs.
    • timescape n. time conceived of, or perceived as, possessing multiple dimensions.[2007, “timescape”, in Jeff Prucher, editor, Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 241
    • My awareness extended beyond human memory and I drifted, lost in the crevices of the now visible Timescape. Then a point of light beckoned me and I strove for it. The light became the memory of my personality and I dove into it. I swirled in an ever-tightening spiral. I was all eight of my...2008 April 17, Jefferson R. Weekley, “The Pool of Blood”, in Red Earth, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 214

Examples of timescape in a sentence

  • It produced a complex mythic timescape, which stretches throughout modernity, but frequently also alludes to pre-modern elements, both classical-ancient and Northern-archaic.2006, Maike Oergel, “Historicity as Identity: The German Myth of Modernity in Goethe’s Faust I”, in Culture and Identity: Historicity in...
  • That fact alone, it is suggested, offers a new longue duree (or ‘timescape’) for population history.2010, David Rollison, “What Came Before: Antecedent Structures and Emergent Themes”, in A Commonwealth of the People: Popular Politics and...
  • 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...
  • My awareness extended beyond human memory and I drifted, lost in the crevices of the now visible Timescape.2008 April 17, Jefferson R. Weekley, “The Pool of Blood”, in Red Earth, Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 214:

Forms of timescape

pluraltimescapes

Origin of timescape

From time + -scape, probably by analogy with landscape.

Questions about timescape

What does timescape mean?
Timescape means a perspective over a period (particularly a long period) of time.
How do you use timescape in a sentence?
It produced a complex mythic timescape, which stretches throughout modernity, but frequently also alludes to pre-modern elements, both classical-ancient and Northern-archaic.
What part of speech is timescape?
Timescape is a noun.
How do you pronounce timescape?
Timescape is pronounced /ˈtaɪmskeɪp/ (UK).
What is the plural of timescape?
The plural of timescape is timescapes.

Words near timescape in the dictionary

  1. timesaving
  2. timescale
  3. timescaled
  4. timescales
  5. timescaling
  6. timescape
  7. timescapes
  8. Timese
  9. timesed
  10. timeseries
  11. timeserver

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