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English
Etymology
From temporal + -ity, from Latin temporalitas.
Pronunciation
Noun
temporality (countable and uncountable, plural temporalities)
- The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).
1996, Douwe Tiemersma, Henk Oosterling, Time and Temporality in Intercultural Perspective:"This means 'that all temporality points beyond itself' (Hart 1973, 32)."
- , 2000 Martin Heidegger Being and Time
- Temporality makes possible the unity of existence, facticity, and falling prey and thus constitutes primordially the totallity of the structure of care.
- Temporality "is" not a being at all. It is not, but rather temporalizes itself. Nevertheless, we still cannot avoid saying that "temporality 'is' the meaning of care," "temporality 'is' determined thus and so."
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