temporal Definition

temporal¹
adj

1. Belonging or relating to time, often in being relatively short.

Thesaurus: impermanent, fleeting, momentary, fugitive, passing, temporary, transient, short-lived.
2. Belonging or relating to worldly or secular life rather than to religious or spiritual life.

Thesaurus: worldly, secular, carnal, earthly, fleshy, material, profane, terrestrial, unspiritual, civil, mundane; Antonym: spiritual.
3. grammar.
Relating to tense or the expression of time.

Derivative: temporally
adverb

Etymology: 14c: from Latin temporalis, from tempus time.

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temporal²
adj

1. Belonging, relating or close to the temples on either side of the head.

Etymology: 16c: from Latin temporalis belonging to the temples; see temple².