temporality.

The time-related character, organization or experience of something.

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Words that belong together

• temporality of experience
• narrative temporality

On the page

The narrative’s temporality differed from the chronological order of its events.

The study compared the temporality of daily routines across the two settings.

Usage notes

Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: requirements and constraints, institutional organization, formal assessment, system properties. Disciplines: academic writing, formal analysis, institutional studies. Commonness: uncommon.