past present future
Temporal tense triad
Past present future, taken together, names the totality of time—everything that has happened, is happening, and will happen.
The phrase appears in discussions of existence, consciousness, or narrative scope: The novel spans past present future in a single chapter.
Sometimes used to suggest completeness or eternal relevance: This truth holds for past present future.
- yesterdayThe previous day
- days gone byPrevious periods of time
- tomorrowThe day after today
- todayThis present day
- here and nowThe current moment
now · in the moment · then · once upon a time · history · old days · memory · good old days · nostalgia · hindsight · foresight · time will tell · moment · eternal · fleeting · time flies · timeline · tense
past present futureeternity
Boundless temporal existence
timelessness · atemporality · the eternal · atemporal · sempiternity
past present futurespatial dimensions
Measurable directions in space
space · physical space · location · position
past present futuresimultaneity
State of coexisting temporally
past, present, future, pasts, presents, futures, presented, presenting, presenter