Synonyms for temporal
ˈtɛm pər əl, ˈtɛm prəltem·po·ral

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1. temporal

   Synonyms:
   secular, worldly, civil, political, transient, fleeting, laical, terrestrial, sublunary, mundane

   Antonyms:
   religious, spiritual, ecclesiastical, eternal, sacerdotal

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1. temporal role, temporaladjective

   the semantic role of the noun phrase that designates the time of the state or action denoted by the verb

   Synonyms:
   temporal role

   Antonyms:
   heavenly, lasting, permanent

2. temporaladjective

   not eternal

   "temporal matters of but fleeting moment"- F.D.Roosevelt

   Synonyms:
   secular, worldly

   Antonyms:
   lasting, permanent, heavenly

3. temporaladjective

   of or relating to or limited by time

   "temporal processing"; "temporal dimensions"; "temporal and spacial boundaries"; "music is a temporal art"

   Synonyms:
   secular, worldly

   Antonyms:
   heavenly, permanent, lasting

4. temporaladjective

   of or relating to the temples (the sides of the skull behind the orbit)

   "temporal bone"

   Synonyms:
   secular, worldly

   Antonyms:
   lasting, heavenly, permanent

5. worldly, secular, temporaladjective

   characteristic of or devoted to the temporal world as opposed to the spiritual world

   "worldly goods and advancement"; "temporal possessions of the church"

   Synonyms:
   profane, lay, blase, laic, secular, worldly

   Antonyms:
   permanent, lasting, heavenly

6. temporaladjective

   of this earth or world

   "temporal joys"; "our temporal existence"

   Synonyms:
   secular, worldly

   Antonyms:
   heavenly, permanent, lasting

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1. temporaladjective

   Synonyms:
   worldly, terrestrial, mundane, secular, of this world, of this life, not spiritual, not ecclesiastical

2. temporaladjective

   Synonyms:
   transient, fleeting, TEMPORARY

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1. temporaladjective

   Synonyms:
   secular, worldly, temporary, political, civil

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1. List of paraphrases for "temporal":

   temporary, time, lobe

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1. Meister Eckhart:

   Time is what keeps the light from reaching us. There is no greater obstacle to God than time: and not only time but temporalities, not only temporal things but temporal affections, not only temporal affections but the very taint and smell of time.

2. Saint Augustine:

   To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.

3. John Ashcroft:

   Unique among the nations, America recognized the source of our character as being godly and eternal, not being civic and temporal. And because we have understood that our source is eternal, America has been different. We have no king but Jesus.

4. Mary Baker Eddy:

   Spirit is the real and eternal matter is the unreal and temporal.

5. Ludwig Wittgenstein:

   Death is not an event in life: we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present.