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Temporality vs Timely - What's the difference?

temporality | timely |

As a noun temporality

is the condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal).

As an adjective timely is

done at the proper time.

As an adverb timely is

(archaic) in good time; early, quickly.

temporality

English

Noun

(temporalities)
  • The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal.)
  • * 1996 Douwe Tiemersma, Henk Oosterling Time and Temporality in Intercultural Perspective [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=s_nfFaHjkBwC&pg=PA33&lpg=PA33&dq=temporality&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Dtemporality&sig=NaYSnTsJq1nHvWc2ECrbse9-ANQ]
  • *:"This means 'that all temporality points beyond itself' (Hart 1973, 32)."
  • * [1927], 2000 Martin Heidegger Being and Time [http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&id=9oc2BnZMCZgC&pg=PA302&lpg=PA302&dq=temporality&prev=http://books.google.com/books%3Fq%3Dtemporality&sig=_AHDrBvcln9-ZTvV9JKNgDGazRY]
    • 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."

    timely

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Done at the proper time.
  • Happening or appearing at the proper time.
  • * Milton
    • The timely dew of sleep.
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=October 20 , author=Jamie Lillywhite , title=Tottenham 1 - 0 Rubin Kazan , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The athletic Walker, one of Tottenham's more effective attacking elements with his raids from right-back, made a timely intervention after Rose had been dispossessed and even Aaron Lennon was needed to provide an interception in the danger zone to foil another attempt by the Russians.}}
  • (obsolete) Keeping time or measure.
    • (Spenser)

    Synonyms

    * (done at the proper time ): well-timed * (happening or appearing at the proper time ): opportune, seasonable

    Antonyms

    * (done at the proper time ): badly timed, ill-timed * (happening or appearing at the proper time ): inopportune, unseasonable

    Derived terms

    * mistimely * overtimely * timelily * timeliness * timely-parted * untimely

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • (archaic) In good time; early, quickly.
  • * 2000 , (George RR Martin), A Storm of Swords , Bantam 2011, p. 587:
    • ‘If I had been born more timely , he said, Rhaegar would have married me instead of Elia, and it would all have come out different.’
  • (obsolete) At the right time; seasonably.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica :
    • And this we shall more readily perform, if we timely survey our knowledge, impartially singling out those encroachments, which junior compliance and popular credulity hath admitted.

    See also

    * seasonably