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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. the quality of being current or of the present;
- Example: "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"
[syn: modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness]

2. the quality of belonging to the same period of time;
[syn: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness]


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):

contemporaneousness n 1: the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village" [syn: modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneity, contemporaneousness] 2: the quality of belonging to the same period of time [syn: contemporaneity, contemporaneousness]