Crossword clues for contemporaneousness
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, and Kimchi, had been contemporaneous with
the later Spanish school of Arabic philosophy.
--Milman
-- Con*tem`po*ra"ne*ous*ness, n.
Wiktionary
n. The state or characteristic of being contemporaneous.
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]
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.