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contemporariness

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con⋅tem⋅po⋅rar⋅y

  [kuhn-tem-puh-rer-ee] adjective, noun, plural -rar⋅ies.
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–adjective
1. existing, occurring, or living at the same time; belonging to the same time: Newton's discovery of the calculus was contemporary with that of Leibniz.
2. of about the same age or date: a Georgian table with a contemporary wig stand.
3. of the present time; modern: a lecture on the contemporary novel.
–noun
4. a person belonging to the same time or period with another or others.
5. a person of the same age as another.
Origin:
1625–35; < LL contempor- (see contemporize ) + -ary

Related forms:
con⋅tem⋅po⋅rar⋅i⋅ly, adverb
con⋅tem⋅po⋅rar⋅i⋅ness, noun

Synonyms:
1. coexistent, concurrent, simultaneous. Contemporary, contemporaneous, coeval, coincident all mean happening or existing at the same time. Contemporary often refers to persons or their acts or achievements: Hemingway and Fitzgerald, though contemporary, shared few values. Contemporaneous is applied chiefly to events: the rise of industrialism, contemporaneous with the spread of steam power. Coeval refers either to very long periods of time—an era or an eon—or to remote or long ago times: coeval stars, shining for millenia with equal brilliance; coeval with the dawning of civilization. Coincident means occurring at the same time but without causal or other relationships: prohibition, coincident with the beginning of the 1920s.
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Word Origin & History

contemporary 
1631, from M.L. contemporarius, from L. con- "with" + temporarius "of time," from tempus "time" (see temper). Meaning "modern" is from 1866. Noun sense of "one who lives at the same time as another" is from 1646, replacing native time-fellow (1577). Contemporaneous (1656) is from the same source but with a form after L.L. temporaneous "timely."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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