Temporality

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal). countable, uncountable

    ""This means 'that all temporality points beyond itself' (Hart 1973, 32).""

  2. 2
    the worldly possessions of a church wordnet

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animalismatomismbehaviorismdialectical materialismempiricismmarxism

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"And when the hourglass has run out, the hourglass of temporality, when the noise of secular life has grown silent and its restless or ineffectual activism has come to an end, when everything around you is still, as it is in eternity, then eternity asks you and every individual in these millions and millions about only one thing: whether you have lived in despair or not."

Etymology

From temporal + -ity, from Latin temporalitas.

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