temporal

3 definitions • 4 examples

relating to practical matters or physical things, rather than spiritual ones:

The tyranny of the monarchy lies in its spiritual rather than its temporal power: it tyrannizes the imagination.

relating to the temple (= the side of the head behind the eyes) or the temporal bone of the skull beneath the temple:

the temporal bone/lobe

relating to time:

The drug reduces spatial and temporal awareness.

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