timefulness
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timefulness (uncountable)
- The quality of being timeful.
- 1922, May Sinclair, The New Idealism, page 105:
- And I do not see that the difficulties are avoided by substituting events which are space and time, events which are durations, for spaceless times and timeless spaces, and event-particles for point-instants, however fitly the distinction expresses the timefulness of space and the spacefulness of time.
- 2008, Criag Hovey, Nietzsche and Theology, page 81:
- Even time itself is part of the creation God makes so that we say that creation did not take place in time but is itself the very condition of possibility for timefulness.
- 2010, Jonathan Tran, The Vietnam War and Theologies of Memory: Time and Eternity in the Far Country:
- Forgiveness in the Arendtian sense then presupposes visceral timefulness, an encounter where anything can happen in the agonistic play of time.