contemporaneous
/kənˌtɛmpəˈreɪnɪəs
/ /kɒnˌtɛmpəˈreɪnɪəs/adjective
Existing at or occurring in the same period of time: Pythagoras was contemporaneous with Buddha...
- Unlike most fiction of the period, contemporaneous dates are emphasized.
- The overview referred to the previous month and was not wholly consistent with the tenor of the contemporaneous log for that period.
- So measuring these elements will indicate if a group of bones are contemporaneous or of different periods.
Derivatives
contemporaneity
/ /kənˌtɛmpərəˈneɪɪti / noun ...- The rooms are in styles of varying contemporaneity: ‘senior suites’, spacious and light-filled, bear the designer label, with art for sale on the walls.
- Their paintings were executed to be perceived as living art, and it is that dimension of their self-aware contemporaneity that still conveys a certain excitement.
- Politically impartial juries would no doubt reach different conclusions depending on their contemporaneity.
contemporaneously
/ adverb ...- All these remedies could be exercised at any time or times simultaneously or contemporaneously or successively or not at all.
- The guard recorded the incident contemporaneously in a sworn statement.
- It's easy to forget that writers are readers, too, and that writing is a dual act - the act of putting the words down and the act of comprehending them both contemporaneously and after the fact.
contemporaneousness
- The first film came out in December and because of the fraught political situation that we're familiar with on a daily basis, the books have a contemporaneousness that's accidental.
- Joe's condition, the seriousness of the wound, the relatively contemporaneousness of the statements and the dominance of the event all lead me to that conclusion.
- The country then began to rub itself with the memory - emptying salve of contemporaneousness.
Origin
Mid 17th century: from Latin, from con- 'together with' + temporaneus (from tempus, tempor- 'time') + -ous.