Horismus (hor-is’-mus): Providing a clear, brief definition, especially by explaining differences between associated terms
CLEAR: Time is change given utility by its humanly crafted measures (i.e., seconds, years, etc.). Additionally, time may be an opening providing the rationale for what happens/happened next (i.e., season, opportunity, etc.).
CONVOLUTED: Time is a feature of human consciousness creating and comparing differences within archetypal oppositions of now and then afforded by memory and imagination; where accounts of experience are scripted as mechanical increments and organic openings–where actions are constrained by the ever-present confluence of chronology and opportunity constituting circumstances and the application of deeply cultured ideals of what is fitting as motives to decision.
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Definition courtesy of “Silva Rhetoricae” (rhetoric.byu.edu).
