Extratemporal vs Temporal - What's the difference?
extratemporal | temporal | Derived terms |
That appears to happen outside of time
(anatomy) Of or pertaining to the side of the head behind the eyes; external to the temporal bone of the skull.
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.
Temporal is a derived term of extratemporal.
As adjectives the difference between extratemporal and temporal
is that extratemporal is that appears to happen outside of time while temporal is of or relating to time.As a noun temporal is
anything temporal or secular; a temporality.extratemporal
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Adjective
(-)temporal
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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 .