kairoticとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

kairotic (comparative more kairotic, superlative most kairotic)

1. Related to, or characteristic of a kairos
   • 2005, John Clemens & ‎Scott Dalrymple, Time Mastery: How Temporal Intelligence Will Make You a Stronger, More Effective Leader, ISBN 0814428886, page 127:

     They seem to have a kairotic sense of timing. Some people dismiss this as luck. But it's much more than that.

   • 2005, C.S. Song, Theology from the Womb of Asia, ISBN 159752302X, page 38:

     The present captured in a cartoon is a kairotic present—a present that affects the life of a people, the destiny of a nation

   • 2009, John Muckelbauer, The Future of Invention: Rhetoric, Postmodernism, and the Problem of Change, ISBN 0791478408, page 116:

     Regardless of the quantity of the duration, because a kairotic event cannot happen at just “any time,” it is also distinct from an abstract articulation of chance. A kairiotic event does not happen randomly; in some qualititative sense, it is a "time of crisis [and] . . . opportunity," which is solicited or even demanded by the situation itself (Smith 10).

   • 2013, Zach Waggoner, My Avatar, My Self: Identity in Video Role-Playing Games, ISBN 0786454091, page 60:

     Kairotic moments may present themselves to vigilant rhetors, but in turn rhetors can craft a kairotic moment as well.