temporality

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Noun

temporality (plural temporalities)

1. The condition of being bounded in time (of being temporal.)
   • 1996 Douwe Tiemersma, Henk Oosterling Time and Temporality in Intercultural Perspective[1]

     "This means 'that all temporality points beyond itself' (Hart 1973, 32)."

   • [1927], 2000 Martin Heidegger Being and Time[2]

     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."