epochality

English

Etymology

From epochal +‎ -ity.

Noun

epochality (uncountable)

1. (rare) The state or quality of pertaining to an epoch.
2. (rare) The primitial abilitude pervading someone or something from which the rousing of an epoch stems.
3. (rare) A state of being momentous; importance; significance.
   • 2015, Ato Quayson, The Cambridge Companion to the Postcolonial Novel, Cambridge University Press, page 8

     It is in part this epochality that leads to Jeyifo's proleptic postcolonialism. However this was in no small part because the epochality of the nation took shape under the aegis of a decolonization process that then succeeded in elevating the struggles and sacrifices of political elites against colonialism to the level of an ontological necessity and thereby projected them as the privileged subjects of representation.

   • 2016, James Luchte, Bloomsbury Studies in Continental Philosophy - Mortal Thought: Hölderlin and Philosophy, Bloosbury Publishing, (unpaginated)

     Derrida gives a rather tentative beginning of an answer: The unfolding of difference is perhaps not solely the truth of Being, or of the epochality of Being.

   • 2015, Andrew Benjamin, Dimitris Vardoulakis, Sparks Will Fly: Benjamin and Heidegger, State University of New York Press, page 147

     It is not the giving of that which is distanced because of its being either originating or primordial, and whose presence and hence its being present (were it ever to be present) would then become the epochality of its founding and maintaining origin.

   • 2010, Bernard Stiegler - Translated by Stephen Barker, Technics and Time - 3: Cinematic Time and the Question of Malaise, Stanford University, page 7

     And I explore the question of, and the conditions for, an exceptional contemporary epochality, whose exceptional difficulty is what I have characterized elsewhere as the epochal double re-doubled.