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noun
The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
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Synonyms: contemporaneousness, cotemporality
Antonyms: none provided
noun
the quality of belonging to the same period of time
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: contemporaneousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: concurrence, coincidence, conjunction, co-occurrence
noun
the quality of being current or of the present
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Synonyms: modernity, modernness, modernism, contemporaneousness
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: currentness, currency, up-to-dateness
History
By surface analysis, contempor(aneous) + -aneity.
Across languages
8 source translations are retained for this English entry.
