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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.
Fate and Destiny in an Eternal World Home
​See Also:
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 - Home Also 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 III
PASSAGE OF TIME


AEONIAN - Eternal, everlasting
Related Words:
  • AD INFINITUM - Again and again in the same way; forever
  • ​AMARANTHINE - From the Greek word amarantos, meaning immortal or unfading.
  • ​INFINITY- the quality of being infinite (endless or unlimited space, time, distance, quantity, etc.) or an indefinitely large number or amount. From the Latin ‘infinitus’ (‘in’ meaning “not” and ‘finitus’ meaning “finished, finite”).​
  • SEMPITERNITY - the state or quality of being eternal, without beginning or end. From the Latin ‘sempiternus’ (semper’ meaning “always” and ‘æternus’ meaning “eternal.”
  • EPHEMERAL - lasting for a very short time. From the Greek ephēmeros meaning “lasting a day, daily”, from ‘epi-‘ + hēmera meaning “day”

ANTEDILUVIAN- defined biblically as someone or something from the time before the Great Flood. Also considered as someone or something that is ancient, elderly, or passé. Coined by English physician Sir Thomas Browne (1605-1682).

AURORA - Originally the name of the Roman goddess of sunrise, the word aurora is now used to describe the dawn, as well as the stunning luminous phenomenon that takes place in the upper atmosphere of a planet's magnetic polar regions.

Related Words:
  • AUBADE - a love song sung at dawn
  • CAMHANAICH - Early morning twilight
  • ​CREPUSCLE - Twilight
  • DAUWTRAPPEN - To walk barefoot through morning grass
  • ​EVENTIDE - The time of evening
  • GLOAMING - Dusk and the twilight hours
  • GOKOTTA - Rising at dawn to listen to the birds sing
  • MADRUGADA - The moment at dawn when the night meets the day.
  • NOCTIVAGANT - To wander at night
  • SEREIN - A fine, light rain that falls from a clear sky at sunset or the early hours of evening twilight
  • SHAFAQ - Evening twilight - the red horizon at sunset
  • UHTCEARE - An Old English word for the experience of waking before dawn and not being able to get back to sleep because you’re worrying about something.

CARPE DIEM - Latin for ‘seize the day!’,

CHRONOPHOBIA -an abnormal discomfort concerning time.

COETERNITY- the state of eternal coexistence; eternal coexistence with another eternal entity.

CONTINUUM - a continuous nonspatial whole or extent or succession in which no part or portion is distinct or distinguishable from adjacent parts

DIACHRONISM -the comparative study of a development based on its history.

DIUTURNITY - the quality of long duration in time; length of time.

GLOTTOCHRONOLOGY - the study of two or more related but distinct languages in order to determine when they separated by examining the lexicon they share and those parts of it that have been replaced.

HOROMETRY - the art or science of measuring time. Related Terms:
  • CHRONOMETRY - the art of measuring time accurately. Also the measurement of time by periods or divisions (defining an era).
  • HOROLOGY - the art or science of making timepieces.
  • HOROLOGE— any instrument or device for telling time, especially a sundial and early forms of the clock.
  • HOROMETER - an instrument for measuring time.
  • GNOMONICS - the art or science of constructing dials for sundials, which show the time of day by the shadow of the ‘gnomon’ which is a pin or triangle raised above the surface of the dial.
  • MICROCHRONOMETER - an instrument for measuring extremely small time intervals.

IMMEDIATISM - the quality or condition of being immediate.

INTEMPESTIVITY -Obsolete, the state or condition of being untimely.

ISOCHRONISM - the condition of occurring at the same time as another event.

MENOLOGY - a calendar of months.

Related Terms:
  • MENSALITY - the state or condition of occurring monthly.

METACHRONISM - a chronological error in which an event is assigned a date after its real one.
Related Terms:
  • PROCHRONISM - the dating of an event as earlier than its actual occurrence.
  • PARACHRONISM -the dating of an event as later than its actual occurrence.
  • PREVENANCE - act or state of preceding or coming before.
  • QUOTIETY - the proportionate frequency at which an event takes place.

OBSOLESCENCE - the process or condition of going out of date or being no longer in use.

STNCHRONISM or synchrony - a coincidence in time; simultaneity.

SYNCHRONOLOGY - an arrangement of events by date, grouping together all those of the same date; a comparative chronology.

TRANSIENCE or TRANSIENCY - the state or quality of passing with time or being ephemeral or fleeting.
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The Passage of Time

NONCE - The present moment
  • DADIRRI - deep listening, quiet stillness in the present moment
  • FIKA - slow down and enjoy the present moment
  • FORTHWITH - immediately. Right now.
  • ICHI-GO ICHI-E - Japanese for “one time one meetings” or a a once in a lifetime meeting
  • IKIGAI - Japanese for what gets you up in the morning
  • IMMEDIATISM - the quality or condition of being immediate.
  • UKIYO - living in the moment

EPOCH - a particular period of time in history or a person's life. An event or time that begins a new period or development. Or a memorable event.

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

MATUTINAL - Morning
As the LŪCĪSCIT HŌC draws near (growing light in the sky) the AURORA or DILUCULO breaks (dawn) and the beams of the QAMAR (moon) fade away. The brightest light (INARA) of the sun takes its place and the KORMOREBI breaks through (sunlight filtering through the leaves of the trees). We can welcome SOLIS ORTUS or what’s known as the sunrise.

  • AURORA BOREALIS - morning light from the north. The corresponding southern lights are called "AURORA AUSTRALIS”
  • CAMHANAICH - Scottish for early morning twilight
  • DORMIVEGLIA - the space of time between sleeping and waking (or vice versa). That magical time when you are half awake and coming out of your dreams.
  • DYSANIA - finding it hard to get out of bed in the morning
  • GOKOTTA - to sing with the birds at dawn
  • MANE - Latin for morning
  • MATIN - French for morning
  • MATUTINE - just before the dawn
  • SAFAK - the first sunlight of dawn
  • SEHER - Urdu for morning
  • SUBHAH - Hindi for morning
  • TAZAFRIR - Hebrew for a light breeze in the morning

VESPERTIDE - Evening
The evening begins with the GLOAMING, which is the moment the sky starts to darken and twilight sets in. It is the moment of OCCASUS when the sun settles down for the night and the moon... called QUMAR in Arabic, FENGARI in Greek, and LUNA in Latin, peeks through the clouds high in the sky.

  • CREPUSCULUM - dusk, twilight
  • EVENFALL - evening, dusk
  • GLOAMING - moment the sky starts to darken and twilight sets in.
  • KAWAAKARI - the gleam of the last streams of light on the water at dusk
  • NIPAN - to grow darker as the light fades
  • SAANJH - Hindi for evening
  • SANDHYA - Hindi for evening
  • VESPERUM - Latin for evening
  • SEREIN - a light must falls on n the evening

NYCTOPHILIA - The love of the night
As the darkness settles in, the rising moon SCINTILLATES (shines brightly) from its resting place. It is transformed into STJERNEKLART - a dark, quiet sky by which the night is filled and illuminated by KUTITAP (glittering and sparkling) TALA (bright stars). They dance like fireflies across the sky in a STELLIFEROUS display (sky abounding with stars.) As the night draws in, the darkness gets more intense the closer it gets to NOCTE (midnight). GABI - Tagalog for nighttime

  • NOCTIFER or Hesperus - the “night bringer” known as the evening star.
  • NOCTIS - Latin for nighttime
  • NOCTIVAGUS - “wanderers of the night.”
  • MESONOXIAN - midnight
  • NOCEUR - one who stays up late at night

PERIOD OF TIME
  • ESTIVAL - summertime
  • EVERYWHEN - all the time
  • FARDA - Urdu for tomorrow
  • KHIAAZAN - Urdu for autumn
  • NEOTERIC - current, new, modern
  • OVERMORROW - the day after tomorrow
  • QUINQUENNIUM - a period of five years
  • SENNIGHT - a week
  • TEMPUS FUGIT - Latin for “time flies”
  • WANDERJAHR - a year - it period - taken off to travel
  • YESTERYEAR - Last year or the recent past, especially as nostalgically recalled.

AULD LANG SYNE - Old times
  • ANACHRONISM- something belonging to the wrong time
  • FUSTY - old fashioned; out of date
  • QUONDAM - something belonging to a long time ago
  • VETUSUS - Latin for ancient, long established


​Obscure Words Related to Time


AUGENBLICK- literally, “blink of an eye,” this German word means a fleeting, decisive moment or event that proves to be significant.

DESENRASCANCO - the last minute improvisation of a solution - to pull a MacGyver!
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DORMIVEGLIA - the space of time between sleeping and waking (or vice versa). That magical time when you are half awake and coming out of your dreams.
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EONIAN - constant and indefinite; continuing forever

ESPRIT D’ESCALIER - the witty comeback you think of after the time is past to use it

EFFLORESCENCE - A state or time of flowering.

EPOCH - a particular period of time in history or a person's life. An event or time that begins a new period or development. Or a memorable event.

FEIERABEND - German for the festive mood at the end of the working day.

FINIFUGAL - hating endings; of someone who tries to avoid or prolong the final moments of a story, relationship or some other journey

FRONDESCENCE - the time at which each species of plant unfold its leaves.

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

ILUNGA - a person who will forgive anything the first time, tolerate it a second time, but never for the third time.

INCIPIENT - beginning to exist or appear. In an initial stage.

INDAK -Tagalog word for dancing in time to the music.

LICNOBIO - a night owl who performs most activities at night under artificial light and sleeps in the day. A human version of a vampire - without the dead part or the need for blood.

LUCUBRATE - to work, write, study or think laboriously through the night. You burn the midnight oil.

NOCTUARY - The record of a single night’s events, thoughts or dreams.

ORENDA - a mystical force present in all people that empowers them to affect the world and change their fate or destiny

PERENDINATE- to procrastinate. From the Latin ‘perendinare‘ meaning “to defer until the day after tomorrow”), from the Latin ‘perendie’ meaning “on the day after tomorrow,” from ‘dies’ meaning ”day.” On a similar note is the possible tongue in cheek carpe diem cras or seize the day tomorrow.

QUAB - something immature or unfinished

RAME - Balinese for something both chaotic and joyful at the same time.

RANORANILAC - an early riser. Someone who gets up early to start the day.

REMONTANT - blooming more than once a season

SAKARATUL MAUT - Arabic for the literally the “throes of death.” The pain one suffers during the last moment of life.

SOBREMESA - the time spent around the table after lunch or dinner, talking to the people you shares the meal with. Time to digest and savor both food and friendship.

SOJURN - a temporary stay

SONNTAGSLEERUNG - the Sunday afternoon depression when you’ve realized the weekend is over and you go back to work the next day.

TIDOPTIMIST - a person who is habitually late because they think they have more time than they do

YESTREEN - during yesterday evening

YUYIN - the remnants of sound that stay in the ears long after the sound stopped

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