temporality
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8.2
- noun
- /ˌtɛmpəˈrælɪti/
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temporalidad
- The temporality of the exhibition reminded visitors that art is often fleeting and subject to change.
- traumatic temporality
- linear temporality
- queer temporality
This improbable, baffling fold of time where past and future temporalities touch, is Fanning's exquisite gift.
- This improbable, baffling fold of time where past and future temporalities touch, is Fanning's exquisite gift.
- She talks about it involving routine, monotony, a certain sort of temporality.
- As such, it has this kind of a temporality that is at the same time weirdly lifelike.
- It's the product of a, an end process of temporality, right?
Examples
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Acts in a play assume a temporality; the second act follows the first, and so on.
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For both, the abstraction of an eternal present depends on two imaginary temporalities, distinct but closely intertwined.
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The humanities introduce a different temporality to the act of learning and judging.
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What of the freedom and gratuity of God's creative act, and the temporality of creation?
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With stars, temporality and materiality enter into crisis mode, as past, present, and future collide.
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Not every age that is aware of its temporality is historically minded in our post-Hegelian sense.
Academic text (1992) -
Focusing on the multiple temporalities of the novel-almanac offers another way to read its ending.
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Medicalization also raises other worrisome questions that hinge on the temporality of scientific findings.
Academic text (2011) -
Historian Cheryl Wells further supports parallels between modernist temporalities and indigenous temporalities.
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By refusing a strictly linear, universal temporality, Silko frustrates utopian and dystopian anticipations alike.
Academic text (2017)
Synonyms
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8.2
A state of not lasting forever and likely to change
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8.1
A short time before something changes or ends
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3.5
A situation that lasts only for a short time
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8.9
A state of lasting only a short time, like a rainbow
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8.2
A short time that passes quickly
A state of lasting only a short time
A temporary condition that does not last forever
The state of lasting only a short time
A feature that shows how long something lasts or how it changes over time
How Temporary
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Temporality comes from the Latin tempus meaning 'time' and is like the English word temporary, which means 'lasting only a short time'. So temporality is about being connected to time or lasting for a limited period.