Atemporal vs Temporal - What's the difference?
atemporal | temporal |
Unaffected by time; timeless; permanent or unchanging.
Of or relating to time.
Of limited time; not perpetual.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18
Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to (spiritual).
* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 166:
Lasting a short time only.
Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.
(chiefly, in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.
* Lowell
(skeleton) Either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.
Any of a reptile's scales on the side of the head between the parietal and supralabial scales, and behind the postocular scales.
As adjectives the difference between atemporal and temporal
is that atemporal is unaffected by time; timeless; permanent or unchanging while temporal is of or relating to time.As a noun temporal is
anything temporal or secular; a temporality.atemporal
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The machinery, when activated, would create atemporal bubbles wherein nothing was affected by the flow of time.
- The greatest music is atemporal .
Synonyms
* (l), (l)Anagrams
* ----temporal
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporalis, from .Adjective
(en adjective)- The things which are seen are temporal , but the things which are not seen are eternal.
- Not long before, he had ruefully acknowledged in a letter to his pious mother that most of his appointments to the bench of bishops had been motivated by distinctly temporal impulses.
- temporal''' power; '''temporal courts
Derived terms
* extratemporal * metatemporal * temporality * temporallyNoun
(en noun)- (Dryden)
- He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals .
