temporality

[ tem-puh-ral-i-tee ]

/ ˌtɛm pəˈræl ɪ ti /

temporal character or nature; temporariness.

something temporal.

Usually temporalities. a worldly or secular possession, revenue, or the like, as of the church or clergy.

Origin of temporality

1350–1400; Middle English temporalite < Late Latin temporālitās. See temporal¹, -ity

The temporality of all things—even of the great imperturbable trees—is a thought of endless visitation in Nature.

Child and Country |Will Levington Comfort
We can apprehend the eternal essence of God because the temporality of our thought is accidental to its meaning.

The Philosophy of Spinoza |Baruch de Spinoza
The conviction and judgment in a civil court would not touch his temporality.

The Last Chronicle of Barset |Anthony Trollope
If worship is confined to the idolization of the sun or the cat, every one realizes the temporality of the matter.

The Positive Outcome of Philosophy |Joseph Dietzgen

I would have brought him to no longer regretting his temporality; I would have made him an idol.

The Origins of Contemporary France, Volume 6 (of 6) |Hippolyte A. Taine

temporality

/ (ˌtɛmpəˈrælɪtɪ) /

the state or quality of being temporal

something temporal

(often plural) a secular possession or revenue belonging to a Church, a group within the Church, or the clergy