Temporality1. (n.) The state or quality of being temporary; -- opposed to perpetuity.
2. (n.) The laity; temporality.
3. (n.) That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like; -- chiefly used in the plural.
Thesaurus Entries
Adam, Marxism, animality, atomism, beastliness, behaviorism, bestiality, brutality, brutishness, carnal nature, carnal-mindedness, carnality, coarseness, commonsense realism, dialectical materialism, earthiness, earthliness, empiricism, epiphenomenalism, fallen nature, fallen state, flesh, fleshliness, grossness, historical materialism, hylomorphism, hylotheism, hylozoism, lapsed state, lasciviousness, lecherousness, lechery, licentiousness, lustfulness, materialism, mechanism, natural realism, naturalism, new realism, nonspirituality, physicalism, physicism, positive philosophy, positivism, postlapsarian state, pragmaticism, pragmatism, realism, representative realism, secularism, sensualism, sensuality, substantialism, swinishness, temporality, the Old Adam, the beast, the flesh, the offending Adam, unchastity, unspirituality, voluptuousness, worldliness