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Timeless vs Temporal - What's the difference?

timeless | temporal |

As adjectives the difference between timeless and temporal

is that timeless is eternal 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.

timeless

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Eternal.
  • * (rfdate) Young
    • Timeless night and chaos.
  • Not affected by time; ageless.
  • (obsolete) Done at an improper time; unseasonable; untimely.
  • * (rfdate) Alexander Pope
    • Nor fits it to prolong the heavenly feast / Timeless , indecent.
  • * (rfdate) Shakespeare
    • Must I behold thy timeless , cruel death?
  • Not decreasing over time in quality and appeal.
    • The cave carvings have a timeless beauty.

    Synonyms

    * (eternal) eternal, everlasting, immortal, infinite, never-ending, sempiternal * (not affected by time) ageless

    Antonyms

    * (eternal) finite, limited * (not affected by time) aged, old

    Derived terms

    * timeless existence * timelessly * timeless moment * timelessness * timeless Test * untimeless

    Anagrams

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    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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