Temporality

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun The laity; temporality.

II. Temporality ·noun The state or quality of being temporary;

— opposed to perpetuity.

III. Temporality ·noun That which pertains to temporal welfare; material interests; especially, the revenue of an ecclesiastic proceeding from lands, tenements, or lay fees, tithes, and the like;

— chiefly used in the plural.