Finite vs Temporal - What's the difference?
finite | temporal |
Having an end or limit; constrained by bounds.
(grammar, as opposed to infinite) limited by person or number.
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 finite and temporal
is that finite is having an end or limit; constrained by bounds while temporal is of or relating to time or temporal can be of the temples of the head.As a noun temporal is
(chiefly|in the plural) anything temporal or secular; a temporality or temporal can be (skeleton) either of the bones on the side of the skull, near the ears.finite
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The "goes" in "he goes" is a finite form of a verb
Synonyms
* limitedAntonyms
* infinite, nonfinite, infinitival * unlimited * endless * eternal * everlastingtemporal
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 .