Meanings
comparative more spatiotemporal · superlative most spatiotemporal · alternative spatio-temporal
- Of, concerning, or existing in both space and time.
It allows that the mind may not be able to exist without a body and that, being spatiotemporal, it possesses properties, such as shape and location.²⁵
2019, Susan Schneider, Artificial You: AI and the Future of Your Mind, Princeton University Press, page 1411 more example
Physical existence, thus, is essentially spatiotemporal ubiety; and that which has or lacks ubiety, that is, is or is not present at some place in space at some time, is always some what or kind—which may be a kind of substance, or of property, or of relation, or of activity, or of change, or of state, and so on.
1956, Sidney Hook, editor, American Philosophers At Work: The Philosophic Scene in the United States - Of or concerning spacetime.
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveexisting in both space and time; having both spatial extension and temporal duration
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinspatium
- Englishspatio-
- Englishtemporal
- Englishspatiotemporal
Translations
Czech časoprostorový
- časoprostorovýof or concerning spacetime
French spatiotemporel, spatiotemporel
- spatiotemporelof or concerning space and time
- spatiotemporelof or concerning spacetime
Polish czasoprzestrzenny
- czasoprzestrzennyof or concerning spacetime
Portuguese espaciotemporal, espaçotemporal
- espaciotemporalof or concerning spacetime
- espaçotemporalof or concerning spacetime
Rhymes & wordplay
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Cite this entry
spatiotemporal. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spatiotemporal
“spatiotemporal.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spatiotemporal. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “spatiotemporal,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/spatiotemporal.
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