contemporaneousness

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
contemporaneousness
    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}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.
   [1913 Webster]

         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.
   [1913 Webster]
    

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