Timescape

Quick meaning: Timescape is a noun meaning A perspective over a period (particularly a long period) of time.

Meaning

A perspective over a period (particularly a long period) of time.

More Meanings

1. (science fiction) A multi-dimensional view of time, especially one in which time travel occurs.

Example Sentences

The entire human and most of the animal and vegetable genetic stock now found in Britain and Ireland arrived (and continues to arrive) over the last 12,000 years. That fact alone, it is suggested, offers a new longue duree (or ‘timescape’) for population history.

Our timescape of life is really a picture showing the fluctuating diversity of life over the past 700 million years. There was little diversity before that time owing to the dominance of blue-green algae. What our timescape shows is, as expected, a number of surges in the diversity of life: […]

The painter's term landscape refers to a picture representing a given scenery, as distinct from a portrait or a still life depicting objects. A timescape is made of recognizable time areas, with permeable borders—private and public time, past, present and future time, home time and work time, etc.—all of which exist within a geography of space.

[Albert] Einstein […] believed in a ‘block’ conception of time – or ‘timescape’, as it is more popularly known – where all events in the temporal series are, as it were, laid out alongside one another tenselessly. On these terms, the flow of time from past to future, in particular the notion of the presentness of the Now, should at best be seen as functions of a finite subject’s limited perspective on the timescape.

Word Forms

• timescapes

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include thoughtscape, viewscape, times, perspective, scenograph, chronoception.

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