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Temporality
Temˊpo-ral′i-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Temporalities
(#)
. [L.
temporalitas
, in LL., possessions of the church: cf. F. temporalité
.] 1.
The state or quality of being temporary; – opposed to perpetuity.
2.
The laity; temporality.
[Obs.]
Sir T. More.
3.
That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; – chiefly used in the plural.
Supreme head, . . . under God, of the spirituality and
temporality
of the same church. Fuller.
Definition 2024
temporality
temporality
English
Noun
temporality (plural temporalities)
- The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal.)
- 1996 Douwe Tiemersma, Henk Oosterling Time and Temporality in Intercultural Perspective
- "This means 'that all temporality points beyond itself' (Hart 1973, 32)."
- [1927], 2000 Martin Heidegger Being and Time
- Temporality makes possible the unity of existence, facticity, and falling prey and thus constitutes primordially the totallity of the structure of care.
- Temporality "is" not a being at all. It is not, but rather temporalizes itself. Nevertheless, we still cannot avoid saying that "temporality 'is' the meaning of care," "temporality 'is' determined thus and so."
- 1996 Douwe Tiemersma, Henk Oosterling Time and Temporality in Intercultural Perspective