atemporal
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- adjective
- /ˌeɪtɛmˈpɔrəl/
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atemporal
- The concept of beauty is sometimes considered atemporal, as it can be appreciated regardless of the era in which one lives.
- atemporal reality
Examples
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In other words, language about the perfection of the Church indicates either an eternal, and therefore atemporal, act of will, or an unrealized, but promised, future status.
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There are no eternal, atemporal, aspatial "truths" or "ideas."
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Thus, a seemingly atemporal concept may exist in a dialectic relationship to temporality.
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"Although traumatic memory is atemporal in its structure, the concept of 'event' presumes a temporality of 'before' and 'after.'
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The human psychology of Pascal becomes more real, replacing natural, ahistorical, or atemporal existence.
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In his articles for La Justice, Belle-le is reimagined as an atemporal, transhistorical, and expansive natural universe in which reality and fantasy merge.
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Understanding the nature of graphic communication—a form of communication that is both atemporal and spatial—forms one of the key foundations for communicating scientific and technical information.
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While Turner focused on ritual steps taken to accommodate the structurally anomalous positions of Ndembu twins through ritual within an atemporal social context, this article attempts to contextualize the ritual process within a broader time frame.
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According to Kathleen Kirby, it configured the new dominant space, "an atemporal, objective, transparent space" (47), by emphasizing boundaries, ownership, propriety, and standardization (45-46).
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Philosophers often debate about whether certain ideas are atemporal, meaning they exist outside of time and are not influenced by it.
Synonyms
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Not showing its age and seeming to fit any time
Not changed by time so it stays true in any era
Not changed by time and connecting past, present, and future
Outside normal time and not changed by passing time
Not related to time
How Timeless
Surface Forms
Morphology
atemporal = temporal (semi-transparent) = a + tempor + al
The meaning is largely predictable from 'temporal' plus privative 'a-', but this learned prefix is not very familiar to many learners.
Etymology
The word atemporal is made of the part a- meaning 'not' and temporal meaning 'time', like in temporary or tempo. So atemporal describes something not tied to time or 'outside of time'.