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CONTEMPORANEITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does contemporaneity mean?
• CONTEMPORANEITY (noun)
The noun CONTEMPORANEITY has 2 senses:
1. the quality of being current or of the present
2. the quality of belonging to the same period of time
Familiarity information: CONTEMPORANEITY used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being current or of the present
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
contemporaneity; contemporaneousness; modernism; modernity; modernness
Context example:
a shopping mall would instill a spirit of modernity into this village
Hypernyms ("contemporaneity" is a kind of...):
currency; currentness; up-to-dateness (the property of belonging to the present time)
Attribute:
modern (belonging to the modern era; since the Middle Ages)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The quality of belonging to the same period of time
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
contemporaneity; contemporaneousness
Hypernyms ("contemporaneity" is a kind of...):
co-occurrence; coincidence; concurrence; conjunction (the temporal property of two things happening at the same time)
Derivation:
contemporaneous (of the same period)
contemporaneous (occurring in the same period of time)
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