Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In anatomy, situated above or high up in the temporal region: specifically noting certain lateral cerebral gyri and sulci.
  • Transcending time, or independent of time.
  • noun That which transcends or is independent of time.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare That which is more than temporal; that which is eternal.

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  • adjective Transcending time.

Etymologies

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super- +‎ temporal

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Examples

  • Indeed, we are being solemnly reminded today that the other-worldliness of religion, its concern with future, supertemporal things, is its characteristic and most precious contribution to the world.

    Preaching and Paganism Albert Parker Fitch

  • That the absolute nature of God, as a supertemporal and yet personal Being, must be believed in as a fact, though inaccessible to reason as regards the manner of its possibility, is a position admitted, almost without exception, by divines who acknowledge the mystery of a personal

    The Philosophy of the Conditioned Henry Longueville Mansel 1845

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