transtemporal

Examples

• All

• The philosopher proposed that some ideas are transtemporal, remaining relevant and true across all eras.

• Liberal education rises and falls on the possibility of transtemporal, transhistorical, transcultural truth.

  Academic text (1990)

• Syntagmatic or temporal unity: The various temporal stages of a narrative individual should allow the possibility of linking them into one transtemporal pattern.

  Academic text (1990)

• The proponents of old-fashioned liberal education have long argued that reading texts "nonpolitically"—by that I mean looking for transtemporal and universal truths or principles—is one good road to wisdom.

  Academic text (1990)

• The artwork was designed to evoke transtemporal emotions, connecting viewers from different generations.

Synonyms

D

dateless

vstranstemporal

3 7.1

Not showing its age and seeming to fit any time

is applied to things seen as outside time rather than merely undated

A

atemporal

vstranstemporal

1 9.9

Not connected to time or to when things happen

is used for things thought to exist outside time rather than timebound

E

extratemporal

vstranstemporal

9.9

Outside normal time and not changed by passing time

is regarded as existing outside time generally not only outside normal flow

I

intemporal

vstranstemporal

• Formal

9.9

Not changed by time so it stays true in any era

is considered outside time broadly rather than only about chronology

N

nontemporal

vstranstemporal

• Specialized

7.7

Not related to time

is narrower, focusing on lack of relation rather than existence outside time

How Timeless

transtemporal

• Specialized

9.9

timeless

70 4.6

temporal

96 7.0

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology