Fleeting vs Temporal - What's the difference?

Fleeting is a related term of temporal.

As adjectives the difference between fleeting and temporal

is that fleeting is passing quickly while temporal is of or relating to time or temporal can be of the temples of the head.

As a verb fleeting

is .

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.

fleeting

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Passing quickly.

* 1931 , Martha Kinross, "The Screen — From This Side", The Fortnightly , Volume 130, page 511:

Architecture, sculpture, painting are static arts. Even in literature "our flying minds," as George Meredith says, cannot contain protracted description. It is so; for from sequences of words they must assemble all the details in one simultaneous impression. But moments of fleeting beauty too transient to be caught by any means less swift than light itself are registered on the screen.

* 2003 , Gabrielle Walker, Snowball Earth: The Story of a Maverick Scientist and His Theory of the Global Catastrophe That Spawned Life As We Know It , Three Rivers Press (2003), ISBN 1400051258, pages 34-35:

During the fleeting summer months of his field season, when the outer vestiges of winter melted briefly, there were ponds and pools and lakes of water everywhere.

* 2008 , Barbara L. Bellman & Susan Goldstein, Flirting After Fifty: Lessons for Grown-Up Women on How to Find Love Again , iUniverse (2008), ISBN 9780595428281, page 12:

For starters, we see examples all the time of some middle-aged men trying to hang onto their own fleeting youth by sporting younger women on their arms.

* 2010 , Leslie Ludy, The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace , Harvest House Publishers (2010), ISBN 9780736922906, page 5:

And I am inspired afresh to pursue the stunning beauty of Christ rather than the fleeting beauty of this world.

Synonyms

* ephemeral * See also .

Verb

(head)

temporal

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporal, from (etyl) temporalis, from .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to time.

Of limited time; not perpetual.

* Bible, 2 Corinthians iv. 18

The things which are seen are temporal , but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to (spiritual).

* 2011 , Thomas Penn, Winter King , Penguin 2012, p. 166:

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.

Lasting a short time only.

Civil or political, as distinguished from ecclesiastical.

temporal''' power; '''temporal courts

Derived terms

* extratemporal * metatemporal * temporality * temporally

Noun

(en noun)

(chiefly, in the plural) Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

(Dryden)

* Lowell

He assigns supremacy to the pope in spirituals, and to the emperor in temporals .

Etymology 2

From .

Adjective

(en adjective)

of the temples of the head

Derived terms

* temporal bone * temporal lobe

Noun

(en noun)

(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.

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