epochal

Speech parts

1. epochal - Adjective

2. epochal - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Belonging to an epoch; of the nature of an epoch.

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[An] epochal innovation [consisting of the] spreading application of science to processes of production and social organization. Simon Kuznets

As I have heard Bush say, only a wartime president is likely to achieve greatness, in part because the epochal upheavals of war provide the opportunity for transformative change of the kind Bush hoped to achieve. In Iraq, Bush saw his opportunity to create a legacy of greatness. Scott McClellan

Domestication involved the initiation of production, vastly increased divisions of labor, and the completed foundations of social stratification. This amounted to an epochal mutation both in the character of human existence and its development, clouding the latter with ever more violence and work. John Zerzan

The basic thing, starting from the initial perception of these nuclei of contradictions (which include the principal contradiction of society as a larger epochal unit) is to study the inhabitants' awareness of these contradictions. Paulo Freire

So now we stand at an epochal moment. The debate is over. The case has gone to the jury, and the jury is history. Events will soon reveal who was right, Bush or Chirac. David Brooks

MOND works far too well! In fact, just as planetary systems are Keplerian objects, galaxies are Milgromian objects. Milgrom's discovery of a0 is likely as epochal as Planck's discovery of h. Pavel Kroupa

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