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Contemporaneity

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con·tem·po·ra·ne·ous  (kn-tmp-rn-s)
adj.
Originating, existing, or happening during the same period of time: the contemporaneous reigns of two monarchs. See Synonyms at contemporary.
[Latin contemporneus : com-, com- + tempus, tempor-, time + -neus, adj. suff.]
con·tempo·ra·nei·ty (-pr--n-t, -n-), con·tempo·rane·ous·ness n.
con·tempo·rane·ous·ly adv.
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Noun1.contemporaneity - the quality of being current or of the present; "a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village"
contemporaneousness, modernity, modernness, modernism
currentness, up-to-dateness, currency - the property of belonging to the present time; "the currency of a slang term"
2.contemporaneity - the quality of belonging to the same period of time
contemporaneousness
conjunction, co-occurrence, coincidence, concurrence - the temporal property of two things happening at the same time; "the interval determining the coincidence gate is adjustable"


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