[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]