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The quality of being current or of the present
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contemporaneousness
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. 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 ] the quality of belonging to the same period of time [syn: contemporaneity ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
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. The great age of Jewish philosophy, that of Aben Esra, Maimonides, ...
Usage examples of contemporaneousness.
The same idea is found floating at the same time in many minds, the like necessity pressing upon all, and the process of invention takes place in like manner: hence the contemporaneousness of so many inventions, and the disputes that arise respecting them, as described in a previous chapter.