temporality
Existing within time
Temporality is the condition of existing within time—subject to change, duration, and eventual ending.
Philosophy and theology contrast temporality with eternity: mortal beings experience temporality while the divine may exist outside it.
The word also describes the quality of being temporary or time-bound: the temporality of human achievement, the temporality of political power.
Passing very quickly
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
- evanescentTending to vanish quickly
- passingMoving by or temporary
transitory · short-lived · impermanent · brief · fugacious · vanishing · fading · decaying
Length of existence
- subjectiveBased on personal perspective
- flowUnbroken forward movement
- passageSegment of text
- paceSpeed of movement
rhythm · moment · now · present · anticipation · memory · waiting · boredom
Boundless temporal existence
- perpetuityInfinite continuation of time
- timelessnessFreedom from temporal decay
- durationLength of existence
- infinityUnlimited extent or quantity
everlasting · immortality · agelessness · enduring · unending · boundless · ceaseless · persistent
fleeting
Passing very quickly
- momentaryLasting very briefly
- ephemeralLasting very briefly
- evanescentTending to vanish quickly
passing · transitory · short-lived · impermanent · brief · fugacious · vanishing · fading · decaying · withering
duration
Length of existence
- subjectiveBased on personal perspective
- flowUnbroken forward movement
- passageSegment of text
pace · rhythm · moment · now · present · anticipation · memory · waiting · boredom · absorption
eternity
Boundless temporal existence
- perpetuityInfinite continuation of time
- timelessnessFreedom from temporal decay
- durationLength of existence
infinity · everlasting · immortality · agelessness · enduring · unending · boundless · ceaseless · persistent · constant
timeline
Ordered display of events
- sequenceOrdered succession of elements
- periodizationDivision into distinct periods
- epochsDistinct historical stretches
eras · ages · succession · synchrony · calendar · dating · annals · chronicle · millennia · centuries
- timesecond, minute, hour, day, seconds
- existenceexistence, being, lives, reality, life
- existentialismexistence, authenticity, existential angst, existential crisis, angst
- temporalitytime, duration, past, present, future
- phenomenologyphenomenology, intentionality, bracketing, lived experience, horizon
- HeideggerDasein, being-in-the-world, authenticity, inauthenticity, care
temporalityeternity
Boundless temporal existence
permanence · timelessness · atemporality · everlastingness · perpetuity
temporalitytranscendence
Surpassing usual limits
the infinite · spirituality · divinity · the eternal · otherworldliness
temporalityimmutability
Inability to change
changelessness · constancy · permanence · fixity · invariability
temporary, tempo, temporal, contemporary, temporize, extemporaneous, contemporaneous, temporizing, contemporaneously