Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

temporalize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: tem-po-r-al-ize
IPA

24

Scrabble Score

11

Letters

5

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To situate in time.

Transitive verb

verb

Example Sentences

"There are probably innumerable rhythms in a sensation during the duration of a second. . . . We are unable to temporalize our sensations of phenomena."
"In each language, mechanisms are available which allow us to classify, serialize, localize, and temporalize the objects of possible experience."
"Spencer begins with an idea in the Platonist sense, which he proceeds to unfold, to spatialize and temporalize in the universe of fiction."
"By way of discourse, we break out of the immediate surround. . . . Whereas the other intentional threads spatialize and temporalize a surround with somewhat limited range . . ., discourse discloses world."

Etymology

From temporal + -ize.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: temporal

Usage

Transitive verb

Inflected Forms

temporalizes (present, singular) temporalizing (participle, present) temporalized (participle, past) temporalized (past) temporalise (alternative)

Derived Forms

temporalization temporalizer

Questions

What does temporalize mean?: To situate in time.
Where does temporalize come from?: From temporal + -ize.

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