nontemporal

Definition of nontemporalnext

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Recent Examples of nontemporal Where Reasons End is set in a nontemporal, nonphysical place. Eve Bowen, The New York Review of Books, 5 Mar. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for nontemporal
Adjective
  • Your celestial ruler, Venus, is dazzling your 10th house of publicity, ambitions and relationships connected to your legacy and reputation.
    Valerie Mesa, PEOPLE, 18 May 2026
  • In reality, including solar gravity would likely reveal even cheaper paths, but only during certain time windows when celestial alignments are favorable.
    Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 17 May 2026
Adjective
  • Mercifully, those connections are not forged across time and space; all three stories remain discrete, never approaching a moment of grandiose metaphysical convergence.
    Justin Chang, New Yorker, 8 May 2026
  • Conversations might turn to metaphysical issues or charitable activities.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 2 May 2026
Adjective
  • My Costa Rican Hammam Experience included a vigorous scrub-down on a marble slab in the steamy hammam that used a Costa Rican coffee bean exfoliator for a local twist, followed by a heavenly massage.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 16 May 2026
  • Harnessing the period drama expertise of Banijay’s Diagonal and its key crew, the crossover of historical thriller and arthouse social point film, tense at times and gorgeously shot, played off the heavenly mountains and a historical hell.
    John Hopewell, Variety, 13 May 2026
Adjective
  • Channels the inner, bestial urges to release an unworldly howl that pushes back any nearby enemies.
    Oliver Brandt, MSNBC Newsweek, 14 Aug. 2025
  • He is known for pioneering overuse of the Auto-Tune effect, giving his vocals an unworldly quality.
    Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 3 June 2025
Adjective
  • Pots simmered on the stove with paella, fruit rotted in bowls next to the junk mail, and the pantry was full of old rusted cans of strange unearthly edibles—bamboo shoots and snails in sauce and lemons floating in brine.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 8 May 2026
  • The effect is both unearthly and mystical.
    Staff Author, Travel + Leisure, 1 May 2026
Adjective
  • But there’s ephemera in the spiritual sense of craft—the spare remarks and objects that constitute the overflow cut for cleaner syntax or word count.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 20 May 2026
  • Take time to renew your spiritual or religious beliefs.
    Georgia Nicols, Denver Post, 19 May 2026
Adjective
  • This may seem in stark opposition to the aforementioned acoustic piety, but these dueling approaches form a beautiful medley of opposites, placing all things human right alongside all things divine, as Christophe attempts to ascertain the nature of both.
    Siddhant Adlakha, Variety, 19 May 2026
  • Roughly nine hours west of Cairo, Siwa is known for salt pools, palm groves and the Oracle of Ammon, where Alexander the Great is said to have been declared divine.
    Hanna Wickes, Kansas City Star, 18 May 2026

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“Nontemporal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nontemporal. Accessed 22 May. 2026.

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