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The right or opportune moment — in rhetoric and philosophy, the idea that the timing of an action or speech is as crucial as its content.
— Rhetoric reference
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Contrasted with chronos, which measures sequential, quantitative time, kairos refers to qualitative time — the moment ripe with possibility and significance.
— Classical philosophy
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In early Christian theology, kairos took on the specific meaning of God's time or sacred time — the moment of divine intervention into ordinary history.
— Theological lexicon
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Kairos was also the name of a minor Greek deity, personified as a young man with a lock of hair on his forehead — graspable as he approached, but impossible to catch once past.
— Greek mythology
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Aristotle defined kairos as the fourth component of persuasion alongside ethos, pathos, and logos, arguing it determined whether the other three would succeed or fail.
— Aristotle, Rhetoric