[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]