As temporal is the adjective which describes things relating to time, is there such a (non-hyphenated) word for temperature? The hyphenated 'temperature-related' works, but I'm curious about non-hyphenated ones.
For context, I'm looking for an equivalent phrase to "one's culinary preferences" but with the word as described above.
Google has thus far been unhelpful in my search, though it did lead me to this fantastic list: Adjectives of Relation.
Perhaps thermal would work.
thermal adjective
Relating to heat:
thermal conductivity
the thermal properties of food
There is thermic or thermal, "related to heat", which would fit your context. Temperature is, after all, exclusively about the presence and quantity of energy in the form of heat. A thermometer measures temperature. Greek thermos means "hot", Latin temperatura means something like "measurement, temperature", ultimately from tempus, "(proportion of) time".
If you were referring to scientific measures of temperature, caloric might suit
Of or relating to heat; calorific
If you are using it in a culinary book, you could use
"one's heating preferences"
