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​The Winds of Fate and Destiny in an Eternal World: The concepts of fate and destiny and the concepts of eternity and infinity are all entwined in meaning but have distinct connotations.
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Fate and Destiny in the Context of Soulmates
A Fleeting Moment in Time for Soulmates
Eternity and Infinity for Soulmates
Mythology Reference

Language of Time
AN INTRODUCTION TO THE
​LANGUAGE OF THE PASSAGE OF TIME

Time is the continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past.

DIRECTORY OF THIS FEATURE
A Brief Moment in the History of Time:
Time is the continuous passage of existence in which events pass from a state of potentiality in the future, through the present, to a state of finality in the past.
A History of Time - HomeAlso available as a Word Guide.​

​This list builds off the concepts defined in Fate and Destiny in the Eternal World. For the best experience, read that first.

Part IV
​THE AGES OF TIME


​Age is just a number - but that number signifies experience. We have stages in life - childhood, adolescence, young adult, middle aged, retirement, and elderly. But we also have language to illustrate a particular age with usually a reflection on things like maturity and experience leve. Let’s take a look at age related words of time.

ADULTESCENT - a young adult or middle aged person who has the interests usually associated with teenagers

AIRLING - a young, thoughtless person

ANTIDILUVIAN - so extremely old as seeming to belong to an earlier period

CHILDE - a youth of noble birth

COEVAL - Someone roughly the same age as you.

CONSENESCERE - to grow old and grey together; to stay too long in an occupation, or to decay or fade

DOTAGE - mental infirmity as a consequence of old age; sometimes shown by foolish infatuations
Pantywaist - a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive

ETERNELLEMENT JEUNES - French for “forever young.”

GERASCOPHOBIA - the fear of growing old

HIKIKIMORI - Japanese for a young adolescent who has withdrawn from life. They are obsessed with video games or the Internet and rarely leave their room

HOBBLEDEHOY - a clumsy or awkward youth, always uncertain

HOARY - gray or white from age

JUVENESCENT - being or becoming youthful or young

KALVERLIEFDE - two young, obsessive and infatuated people in love

MIDDLESCENCE - the middle-aged period of life, especially when considered a difficult time of self-doubt and readjustment

MOPPET - a young child

MUSIN - old or aged

NEANIMORPHIC - appearing younger than your actual age

NOACHIAN - ancient or antiquated

NOVELLUS - Latin for young or tender

PEG PUFF - a young woman with the manner of an old woman. Old Scots language.

PRECOCIOUS - showing mature qualities at an early age

PUERILE - displaying or suggesting a lack of maturity or the characteristic of a child

RANTIPOLE - a wild, reckless young person

RENASCENCE - a second or new birth

SENESCENCE - the state of being or becoming old

TANTENVERFUHRER - a young man with impeccable manners who you suspect has devious motives, “Aunt seducer.”

TORSCHLUSSPANIK - literally “gate closing panic,” the fear of diminishing opportunities as you age

VETUSTUS - Latin for ancient, old, or long established

YEALING - a person of the same age as you

Nostalgia for a Time Long Gone

The passage of time can cause nostalgia for events, people or circumstances long gone. You can be triggered by scents, visuals, interactions, conversations, holidays - anything can bring up memories to stimulate your emotions to feel fondness, wishful, sorrowful, melancholy or even anger. Here is a look at the words of time felt with nostalgia.

AAY’ HAN - the bittersweet perfect moment of mourning and joy; remembering those who are lost and gone right the time you are celebrating or having the time of your life.

ANEMOIA - a nostalgia for a time you’ve never known. Imagine stepping through the frame into a sepia-tinted haze, where you could sit on the side of the road and watch the locals passing by. Who lived and died before any of us arrived here, who sleep in some of the same houses we do, who look up at the same moon, who breathe the same air, feel the same blood in their veins—and live in a completely different world.

ATAVISTIC - relating back to feelings or ideas that people had in the distant past

DOR - a deep and nostalgic feeling of sadness, agony and emptiness experienced when you are missing, longing, or yearning for someone

FUUBUTSUSHI - Japanese for the things, feelings, or scents that evoke memories or anticipation of a particular season.

GJENSYNSGLEDE - the joy of meeting up with someone you haven’t seen in ages.

HALCYON - denoting a period of time in the past that was idyllically happy and peaceful

HIRAETH - a homesickness for a home to which you cannot return, a home which maybe never was. The nostalgia, the yearning, the grief for the lost places of your past.

LE TEMPS PASSE - French for “time flies”

MADELEINE - sometime that triggers memories or nostalgia

MORRINA - a very deep , nostalgic and melancholic homesickness as you long to return home.

NATSUKASHII - Japanese word meaning a small thing that brings you back in time. The memories are not of a wishful longing for what is over and done, but of an appreciation of the good ole’ days.

PRETERIST - one who has a chief interest in the past, reliving the past. They believe the prophecies of the Apocalypse to have already been fulfilled.

RETROUVAILLES - French for the happiness of meeting again after a long time.

SILLAGE - the scent that lingers in the air, a trail left in the water, the impression made in space after something or someone has gone, or the lingering trace of perfume after a woman is long gone.

SOUVENIRS D’ENFANCE - French for childhood memories

SUPERLUMINAL - traveling faster than the speed of light

ZEITGEIST - the spirit of the time; the spirit characteristic of an age or generation
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