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}]
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]