Word-Built World: kairos

kairos

PRONUNCIATION: (KY-rahs) 

MEANING: noun: The right time for taking an action; a decisive moment.

ETYMOLOGY: From Ancient Greek kairos (a fitting time). In Modern Greek the word means weather or time. Earliest documented use: 1936.

kairos

Time as Occasion (Kairos), detail (1543-1545)
Art: Francesco Salviati

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