contemporaneity n 1: 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}, {contemporaneousness}] 2: the quality of belonging to the same period of time [syn: {contemporaneity}, {contemporaneousness}]
Contemporaneity \Con*tem`po*ra*ne"i*ty\, n. The state of being contemporaneous. [1913 Webster] The lines of contemporaneity in the oolitic system. --J. Philips. [1913 Webster]