temporal

About 17.77 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Of or relating to the material world, as opposed to sacred or clerical.

   temporal power, temporal courts

2. adjective Relating to time: Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal. Lasting for a short time only. Of or relating to time as distinguished from space. Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
3. adjective Of limited time, transient, passing, not perpetual, as opposed to eternal. Lasting for a short time only.
4. adjective Lasting for a short time only.
5. adjective Of or relating to time as distinguished from space.
6. adjective Of or relating to the sequence of time or to a particular time.
7. adjective Relating to or denoting time or tense.
8. noun Anything temporal or secular; a temporality.

Similar words

worldly temporary impermanent profane earthly chronological timed timing interim short-term

Often followed by

and lobe bone power order lobes sequence or resolution

Word family

temporally temporals