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contemporaneous
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contemporaneous
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective contemporaneous has 2 senses
- contemporaneous(s = adj.all) contemporary - 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" Derived forms noun contemporaneity2, noun contemporaneousness1
- contemporaneous(s = adj.all) coetaneous, coeval - of the same period; Array Derived forms noun contemporaneity2, noun contemporaneousness2
CIDE DICTIONARY
contemporaneous, 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."
OXFORD DICTIONARY
contemporaneous, adj. (usu. foll. by with)
1 existing or occurring at the same time.
2 of the same period.
1 existing or occurring at the same time.
2 of the same period.
Derivative
contemporaneity n. contemporaneously adv. contemporaneousness n.
Etymology
L contemporaneus (as com-, temporaneus f. tempus -oris time)
THESAURUS
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-minuteROGET THESAURUS
contemporaneous
Synchronism
N synchronism, coexistence, coincidence, simultaneousness, simultaneity, concurrence, concomitance, unity of time, interim, isochronism, contemporary, coetanian, synchronous, synchronal, synchronic, synchronical, synchronistical, simultaneous, coexisting, coincident, concomitant, concurrent, coeval, coevous, contemporary, contemporaneous, coetaneous, coeternal, isochronous, at the same time, simultaneously, together, in concert, during the same time, in the same breath, pari passu, in the interim, as one, at the very moment, just as, as soon as, meanwhile.
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