>a complex temporality A complex issue concerning the present condition rather than an eternal truth OED **temporality** >**3. The quality or condition of being temporal or temporary; temporariness; relation to time**. > >1635 E. Rainbow Labour 11 Though in the act of our labours..we place temporality, yet ought we alwayes before our intentions to set æternity. > >1659 H. L'Estrange Alliance Divine Offices v. 158 As the Western Church observed this very day [All Saints day], so did also the Eastern, or at least some other, in temporality and point of time very near it. > >1678 T. Jones Of Heart & Soveraign 587 What can any mortal excellency, that has..perishing temporality stamp'd upon it signifie to Christians, who are not of this world? > >1909 Westm. Gaz. 15 May 4/1 Gaining thereby the attributes of eternity, without losing its own qualities of temporality. **Temporality** is (i)that which an issue, concern, matter, etc., that will pass in time, i.e. *as opposed to a matter or concept that is **eternal***; (ii) that which is related only to current times, i.e. those things that are happening now (often with the nuance that these things are temporary.)