Tentative vs Temporal - What's the difference?
tentative | temporal |
Of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental.
Uncertain; subject to future change.
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 nouns the difference between tentative and temporal
is that tentative is a trial; an experiment while temporal is anything temporal or secular; a temporality.As adjectives the difference between tentative and temporal
is that tentative is of or pertaining to a trial or trials; essaying; experimental while temporal is of or relating to time.tentative
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Adjective
(en adjective)Derived terms
* tentativenessExternal links
* *Anagrams
* attentive ----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 .
