[syn: coetaneous, coeval, contemporaneous]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Contemporaneous \Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous\, a. [L. contemporaneus;
con- + tempus time. See Temporal, and cf.
Contemporaneous.]
Living, existing, or occurring at the same time;
contemporary.
[1913 Webster]
The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra,
Maimonides, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with
the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy. --Milman
-- Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
contemporaneous
adj 1: occurring in the same period of time; "a rise in interest
rates is often contemporaneous with an increase in
inflation"; "the composer Salieri was contemporary with
Mozart" [syn: contemporaneous, contemporary]
2: of the same period [syn: coetaneous, coeval,
contemporaneous]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
46 Moby Thesaurus words for "contemporaneous":
accompanying, actual, agreeing, as is, being, coetaneous,
coeternal, coeval, coexistent, coexisting, coinstantaneous,
collateral, concomitant, concurrent, contemporary, conterminous,
coterminous, current, existent, existing, extant, fresh, immanent,
immediate, instant, isochronal, isochronous, latest, modern, new,
present, present-age, present-day, present-time, running,
simultaneous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronous, that be,
that is, topical, unison, unisonous, up-to-date,
up-to-the-minute